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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Tyler Perry

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I’m sorry, I’m still on the last caller.
TYLER PERRY

People Sorry Thinking
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
TYLER PERRY

Being Just Knowing Peace
I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There’s something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that’s really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
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Curve Feet Shoes
I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything’s solved, and it’s great and wonderful. You’re a perfect human being.
TYLER PERRY

Human People Perfect Thinking
We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
TYLER PERRY

Light People Waiting
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
TYLER PERRY

Biggest Life Take This Successes
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
TYLER PERRY

Degrees Label Wall
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman
I’m very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I’m all for the underdog, so I’d like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
TYLER PERRY

Different People Underdog
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
TYLER PERRY

Certain Country Years
I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
TYLER PERRY

Beats. Doing Heck People
Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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Mother Southern Term
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
TYLER PERRY

Inspiration Inspire People
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
TYLER PERRY

Forgiveness Journey Powerful
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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Alive Jail Statistics
The important thing for me is, and what I’d like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you’d find some pretty interesting things there.
TYLER PERRY

Opportunity People Thinking

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