That morning, he’d felt compelled to watch Cicely Tyson’s filmThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
“Not 12 minutes into the movie my phone rang.
It wasOprahcalling to tell me that Cicely had died,” Perry wrote.
“This one brought me to my knees!
My heart breaks in one beat, while celebrating her life in the next.
She called Perry “son.”
“Always so regal, always so classy, always a lady, always a queen.
Every time we would talk I would ask, ‘How are you?’
and you would say, ‘I’m still here.
He must have something he wants me to do.’
