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Don't make a black woman take off her earrings.

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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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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If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.
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My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.
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You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.
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If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
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I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
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I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.
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