Who is Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954), or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teenage years and b...
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Oprah Winfrey Quotes

• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
• 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 greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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• 0xailen: if you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. if you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. -oprah winfrey
• Bahwaakusayang: "you become what you believe." -oprah winfrey
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