“I was unhappy and miserable during the first 28 years of my life.”
- Mr. Tyler Perry
Practically everyone on the planet knows who Tyler Perry is. No need in taking time and space on this blog re-telling his story. This post is written because we believe Tyler Perry is not the last. Out of the millions and millions of performers in America how many ever land that gig? Not many, right? Well, don’t fret. Tyler Perry has established something that no one person in Hollywood ever has… and probably ever will. But that’s Hollywood, not Black Hollywood. See, it is the enduring nature of a struggling person to explode above and beyond what has already been done. Have you struggled throughout your life, searching for something to call your own? Have you endured poor choices, disgruntled family lives, impoverished neighborhoods and communities? Have you always heard the NO and felt it deep down inside you? I bet that started a fire and here you are anticipating the fire’s massive explosion.
Well, case in point, Mr. Tyler Perry began writing plays at the age of 18. For 8 years following he was a homeless writer living in his own car. Some 11 years after writing his first play Tyler saw his explosion, to the heights never seen in American cinema previously. It took Mr. Tyler Perry more than 30 years, a time spent living in his car, physically and sexually abused by predators and contemplating suicide, before he “made it.” You, like Tyler have been through so much. Be inspired by his journey and his endurance, not his mansion and revenue. The good things are not always the “things” but the effort it took to get them.
-Windy Cooke
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