Tyler Perry on Winning Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Oscars 2021 - video Dailymotion

Tyler Perry received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2021 Academy Awards.

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00:00you know I could feel her in the moment I could feel her anytime I'm up there I'm carrying her

00:07with me and all that she went through and all we went through together so you're absolutely right

00:11about that Jeremy just where we are in the country in the world everybody's grabbed a

00:15corner and a color and they're all nobody wants to come to the middle to have a conversation

00:18everybody's polarized and it's in the middle where things change so I'm hoping that that

00:24inspires people to meet us in the middle so that we can get back to some semblance of normal as

00:29this pandemic is over we can all get to a place where we're showing love and kindness to each

00:33other again I just think because there's so many people that are forgetting is is in the middle is

00:38where conversation happens and that's where change happens when you're talking and experiencing each

00:43other what what everybody's going through and being able to put yourself in being able to put

00:47yourself in someone else's shoes and have empathy for those situations I think that only happens in

00:52the middle so that's my hope that more people would just meet in the middle

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