please everybody do not forget how important dolly’s philanthropy towards impoverished & illiterate communities in the south & appalachia was. i’m so so heartbroken
With Dolly Parton's passing, I implore everyone—especially Americans—to learn about the education in the southern US, in particular appalachia where Dolly hailed from. It is one of the poorest and least literate places in the country, earning its residents contempt from those--
“I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library, because if I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done."