As Dolly Parton blows out the candles on her birthday cake Tuesday, shes asking for a gift that cant be bought.
This year my wish is a call for kindness, Parton captioned a throwback photo of herself, as she turned 75. We cant just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. We have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends and our neighbors. So today, January 19th, lets get to unearthing love.
Dolly Parton, pictured on Today in 2017, turns 75 on Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)
Parton, whose message arrives as the country is divided politically and in the throes of a pandemic, has done more than just wish everyone well during a tough time: She donated $1 million to the development of Modernas COVID-19 vaccine. Shes continued to steer her Imagination Library, which promotes childrens literacy by providing books for children under 5.
The country music legend, who has usually kept her political comments to her songs, also spoke out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and explained dropping the Dixie from the name of her Medieval Times-like dinner attraction, Dolly Partons Stampede, because of its association with the Confederacy.
I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen, Parton told Billboard in August 2020. And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white a**es are the only ones that matter? No!
Though Parton has a lot to celebrate on her birthday, shes long joked that she refuses to get any older and that she doesnt have time for it anyway.
Im just gonna be the best that I can be at whatever age I am, she told Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Conversation in November 2020. And I bet you Im not gonna look that different at 95 because Im like the Gabor sisters. Im gonna look like a cartoon. Ill have on the makeup. Ill look as young as my plastic surgeons will allow me. And its like all that makeup and lighting and all that. But I think more than anything, its about what comes from inside you.
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