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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Tyler Perry

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.
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Boys New Orleans Swimming
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Degrees Label Wall
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.
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Biggest Life Take This Successes
I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.
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Different Thinking Wish
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
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Growing Important Moving Up
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.
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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
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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Hurt Learn Love Needing Pain
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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God Good People Thousand
It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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Behnd Costume Esasier
Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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Laughing Lesson Life People
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
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Hurt People Trying
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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Dream Give Up Thinking
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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Distance Mother Powerful
Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
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Blessed People Trying
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

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