Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfreyis an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's first and only multi-billionaire black person. Several...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth29 January 1954
CityKosciusko, MS
CountryUnited States of America
I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.
Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.
passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.
I love the printed word and have always appreciated the unique connection between author and reader. This magazine provides a different way for people to be informed and inspired.
Reading gave me hope.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me and I know it resonates with millions of other people who have read this book and will continue to read this book.
I speak to millions every day, but it's different one-on-one when people have paid to hear you say something meaningful.
I've been doing this a long time and people have made donations and they've been very kind, but no one has ever given our Angel Network $1 million.