Tyler Perry Honored With Humanitarian Award at 2021 Oscars

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Viola Davis presented Tyler Perry with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars

at the 2021 Oscars, and Perry shared an inspirational message in his acceptance speech.

"My great friend, filmmaker, and philanthropist, Tyler Perry, personifies empathy," Davis shared. "Tyler knows what it is to be hungry, to be without a home, to feel unsafe and uncertain. So when he buys groceries for 1,000 of his neighbors, supports a women's shelter, or quietly pays tuition for a hard-working student, Tyler is coming from a place of shared experience."

"When I set out to help someone, I'm not trying to do anything other than meet somebody at their humanity," Perry said, before recalling an occasion, around 17 years ago, when he was walking to his car outside a studio and he came across a homeless women who asked if he might have any extra shoes to gift her.

"She said, 'Thank you, Jesus. My feet are off the ground,'" he continued."In that moment, I just recall her saying to me, 'I thought you would hate me for asking.' I go, 'How can I hate you, when I used to be you? How can I hate you when I had a mother who grew up in the Jim Crow south, in Louisiana?'"

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