Tyler Perry knows very well the worth of Cicely Tyson.
The actor, filmmaker, Tyler Perry, 52, shared a conversation with "AARP The Magazine" for its August/September cover story, here is what he revealed,
"This woman had done so many amazing things, but she
wasn't well compensated for it, She made $6,000 for Sounder, you know? I wanted to make sure she knew that there were people who valued her."
"loved working with Tyson It makes me feel great that I was in a position to give this incredible woman some security in her latter years,"
After Tyson's death, Perry dedicated a heartfelt tribute to the screen legend on Instagram. He wrote,
"My heart breaks in one beat, while celebrating her life in the next, To think that she lived for 96 years and I got to be a part of the last 16 brings me great joy. She called me son. Well, today your son grieves your loss and will miss our long talks, your laughter from your belly, and your very presence."
"Always so regal, always so classy, always a lady, always a queen, Every time we would talk I would ask, 'How are you?' and you would say, 'I'm still here. He must have something he wants me to do.' Well, I think it's safe to say you have done all you were put here to do, and we are all better for it."
"After that, I tried again — many, many times — to produce the play, I would get different jobs between those times, but I'd quit to work on the play, and I ended up homeless. For three months, I lived in a Geo Metro that I was hiding from the repo man."
"some survivor's guilt, there are a lot of people I went to school with who did not make it, who ended up in prison, who ended up murdered, especially during the time of the crack cocaine infusion into America."
"I credit my getting out to my mother, my aunts, my grandmother — all these incredible women who prayed and taught me things and believed in me, Had I not had their examples and their straight-up backbone — their insistence that I make something of myself — I don't know where I'd be."
