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
Everybody who's ever been snubbed because you were not chic enough or the right class or the right color or whatever ? I don't know what it was ? you know that that is very humiliating and that is exactly what happened to me.
I feel duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.
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.
I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.
I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Matthew's search for stories of people that he could help led him to an abandoned hospital in New Orleans, ... Inside were beloved pets that families had been forced to leave behind during this evacuation. One man vowed to keep them alive. And Matthew went to help him.
I was sitting at home feeling frustrated and useless, like so many other people, so I came down to personally assess how I could best be of service.
Every show you'll see here holds such profound meaning for me, ... I appreciate every hour our viewers spent watching us grow forward and now, through this DVD Collection, I can give back to the world by using its proceeds and the next twenty seasons of my life for what I know is my true calling -- to be of service to women, children and families in need around the world.
This is part of the reason I was born, ... I will do other films, but nothing will come close to meaning what this has meant to me at this particular time.
I've met a lot of people in my life, but I've never met anyone like this little boy, who seemed to come from another world.
Stanford, Yale and NYU line up to get a seat in her class.
It makes me so mad. It makes me mad. This should not have happened. This should not have happened.
It's not sad for me. It's embarrassing and disappointing for me.