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Perry, Tyler.
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Perry, Tyler.
African American actors -- Biography.
Christian biography -- United States.
Christian life.
Religion
Motivation (Psychology)
New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
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Higher is waiting / ...
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New York : Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, [2017] [2017]
Subjects
Perry
, Tyler.
African American actors -- Biography.
Christian biography -- United States.
Christian life.
Religion
Motivation (Psychology)
New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
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Beginning with his earliest memories of growing up a shy boy in New Orleans,
Perry
recalls the moments of grace and beauty in a childhood marked by brutality, deprivation, and fear. With tenderness he sketches portraits of the people who sustained him and taught him indelible lessons about integrity, trust in God, and the power of forgiveness: his aunt Mae, who cared for her grandfather, who was born a slave, and sewed quilts that told a story of generations; Mr. Butler, a blind man of remarkable dignity and elegance, who sold penny candies on a street corner; and his beloved mother, Maxine, who endured abuse, financial hardship, and the daily injustices of growing up in the Jim Crow South yet whose fierce love for her son burned bright and never dimmed.
Perry
writes of how he nurtured his dreams and discovered solace in nature, and of his resolute determination to reach ever
higher
.
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xvii, 201 pages ; 20 cm
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