Tyler Perry On Emmy’s Governor’s Award Honor: “We’re All Sewing Our Own Quilts”
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deadline.comDade Hayes Finance EditorTyler Perry accepted the TV Academy’s Governor’s Award with a heartfelt speech centering on a quilt his grandmother gave him when he was 19.When he first saw the quilt, with its multi-colored patches and patterns, he recalled, “it was something that I didn’t really care for, and I was quite embarrassed by it.” He would use it for household chores, even as a rag when he changed the oil in his car.
Later, when he noticed a similar quilt in an antique shop, he learned about its origins and had an epiphany about his grandmother’s gift.“It was made by an African-American woman who was a former slave,” a salesperson in the antique shop told him.
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