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
"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.
I just want to say shame on anybody for thinking that I was upset for not being able to get into a clothes store and buy a purse, ... Please, please.
It's not a classic and it is also not fiction but a bold choice ... it's a gut-wrenching memoir.
After this trip I know these kids went home with happy memories to last a life time.
I hope... to open the door to the possibilities for a world of people who have never been or even thought of going to a Broadway show.
I hope you know how much I loved your mother.
No, ma'am, I would not, ... is the best forum in the world. I think all the senators wish they had that for themselves.
No, the lie of it. That's a lie. It's not an idea, James, that's a lie.
I wanted to open the door and broaden the field, ... That allows me the opportunity to do what I like to do most, which is sit and talk to authors about their work. It's kind of hard to do that when they're dead.