Here's Tyler Perry's rags-to-riches tale which is so inspirational!

Tyler Perry is the President and Founder of The Tyler Perry Company Inc., (Tyler Perry Studios). He is best known as a writer, director, and actor in films, television, and theatre.

In 2010, the New Yorker described Perry as "the most financially successful black person the American film industry has ever known."
 

Perry was born Emmitt R. Perry, Jr. in New Orleans, one of four children. Perry changed his first name to Tyler because of his troubled relationship with his father. Perry who once lived in his car has become the most successful black producer of film and theatre in the U.S.
 

Perry's rags-to-riches tale is astonishing and inspirational. His younger days were troubled, and he suffered from endless abuse growing up. The dejection and rejection caused Perry to do some soul-searching as an adult.
 

In 1992, in an effort to find catharsis for his own childhood pain, and inspired by Oprah Winfrey to put it down on paper, he wrote a series of letters to himself. Those letters would be transformed into his first hit musical, "I Know I've Been Changed." And share his story with as many people as possible so that he might help others. Perry learned real forgiveness, deep down inside--forgiveness that leads to success in the soul. He chose the stage life as a vehicle, and this new life has been a learning process, full of hard work. But now Perry has reached out to millions across the country and in doing so has tremendously altered how people perceive and attend the urban theatre.

Since making his film debut with "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" (opened #1 at the box office), Tyler Perry has become a multimedia phenomenon with a roster of a hugely successful film, stage, television, and book projects.
Perry's first book, "Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Life and Love" debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list and remained in the Top 10 for eight weeks.

The most difficult thing is the decision to overcome obstacles, endure hardship, and keep calm under the turmoil life brings. Perry’s story of courage to endure hardship brought opportunities to purse endeavors he never thought was possible. We must learn to endure hardship with dignity and strength. When human life brings suffering and calamity; as it often will, enduring gives meaning to the word courage. Through the courage we find strength. Have the Perseverance to endure hardship; for the storm will end and there will be rest.
 

Perry says, “When a seed is planted in the ground, all you can do is water it, you cannot control the sunshine, you cannot control the weather, and you cannot control what the locusts would do when they would come to destroy it. All you can do is plant your seed in the ground, water it, and believe. I would not stop believing; never despise small beginnings that would change the world”.
 

𝐁𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲!