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

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

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

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

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

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.