While Dolly Parton blows out the candles on her birthday cake on Tuesday, she is asking for a gift that cannot be bought.
“This year, my wish is a request for kindness,” Parton captioned a backward photo of herself when she turned 75. “We cannot just wait for a better day, we have to work for a better day. Love is often buried in a world of pain and fear. We have to work to dig it up so that we can share it with our family, friends and neighbors. So today, January 19th, we are going to dig up love. “
Parton, whose message arrives while the country is politically divided and in the midst of a pandemic, did more than just wish everyone the best during a difficult time: she donated $ 1 million to the development of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. She continued to run her Imagination Library, which promotes children’s literacy by providing books for children under the age of 5.
The country music legend, who generally keeps his political comments on his songs, also spoke out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and explained that he removed the name “Dixie” from the name of his medieval dining attraction, Dolly Parton’s Stampede because of association with the Confederation.
“I understand that people have to make themselves known, felt and seen,” said Parton Advertising panel in August 2020. “And it is clear that the lives of black people are important. Do we think that our little white dogs are the only ones that matter? Not!”
Although Parton has a lot to celebrate on her birthday, she has been playing for a long time that she refuses to grow old – and that she doesn’t have time for it anyway.
“I will be the best I can be at any age,” she told Oprah Winfrey in Oprah’s conversation in November 2020. “And I bet I’m not going to look that different at 95 because I’m like the Gabor sisters. I’m going to look like a cartoon. I’ll put on makeup. I will look as young as my plastic surgeons allow. And it’s like all that makeup and lighting and everything. But I think more than anything, it’s about what comes from within you. “
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