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Oprah

Oprah Quotes

Total quotes: 5

Oprah

Birthname

AKA: Gail Winfrey

Educated At: Tennessee State University, East Nashville Magnet School, Lincoln High School, Nicolet High School

Political Parties: Democratic Party

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Television Actor, Film Actor, Patron Of The Arts, Talk Show Host, Autobiographer

Total quotes: 5

“When I was in my 20s, I was a lost soul. Your 20s are about finding your soul.”

— Oprah, 23 Celebrity Quotes For Surviving Your 20s

Tagged: 20 somethings, Soul, Finding Yourself

“Make the right decision even when nobody's looking, especially when nobody's looking, and you will always turn out okay.”

— Oprah, 19 Inspiring Celebrity Quotes To Live By

Tagged: life advice, Right Choices, Positive Quotes

“In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee, watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: “The winner is Sidney Poitier.” Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black. And I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that.”

— Oprah, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech

Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Historical Moments Retold, Memoir, Life Narratives

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.”

— Oprah, What I Know For Sure

Tagged: Wisdom, Love, Oprah, Loving Others, Spreading Love, Pay It Forward

“And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road, coming home from church...The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men.”

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