Tyler Perry: Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

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When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

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

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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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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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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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You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

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I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

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I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

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My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

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If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

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God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

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When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

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You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

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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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I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

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Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

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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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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

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