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.
We shall not be moved. We're here, thousands strong in Yankee Stadium, to say to the world hope lives, prayer lives, love lives.
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.
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.
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.
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.
We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.