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
Until we rise up in the streets and change the laws in this country, this will continue to happen and every time it will be more heinous than the next.
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.
I would not be standing here today, nor standing where I stand every day, had she not chosen to sit down. I know that.
It's a gut-wrenching memoir that is so raw and so real.
Are you a racist? I believe everybody should have this in their movie collection.
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.
It's just a television show. But, wouldn't this be cool?
It has just stopped me from eating another burger!
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 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.
I regret that phone call. I made a mistake and I left the impression that the truth does not matter. And I am deeply sorry about that.
Nothing I saw on television prepared me for what I experienced on the ground,
It's not a classic and it is also not fiction but a bold choice ... it's a gut-wrenching memoir.
I did send flowers and I did send a note