Oprah Winfrey Quotes and Biography 2022
Oprah Winfrey is an American television producer, talk show host, author, philanthropist and also an actress. Her Birth name is Oprah Gail Winfrey and she loved Oprah Winfrey.
She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S. and was born on 29th Jan 1954. She is well-known for her talk show which is the highest-rated tv program of its kind and is, The Oprah Winfrey Show which was broadcasted from Chicago.
It’s been running for nearly 25 years, since the year of 1986 till 2011. She was also the richest African-American of the 20th century and also once happened to be the world’s only black billionaire and was the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. In the year 2007, she was ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Early life, Family and Relationship
Oprah Gail Winfrey the great potential-filled woman has a first name spelt Orpah in her birth certificate and after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth and as people misspelt and pronounced it Oprah it was then stuck as Oprah.
Father: Vernon Winfrey
Mother: Vernita Lee
Brother: Jeffrey Lee
Sisters: Patricia Lofton & Patricia Lee Lloyd,
She was born to a teenage unmarried mother who was a housemaid. Her biological father was a coal miner who became a barber and later he became a city councilman who was in the Armed Forces when she was born.
Later Noah Robinson Sr. claimed to be her biological father who was a Mississippi farmer and World War II Veteran. In the year of 2006, a genetic test of hers said that her mother’s ancestry was from the Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia.
Her gene was determined to be of the 89% Sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American, and 3% East Asian.
Oprah Winfrey Success and career
Winfrey was first working in the local media and during that time she was the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor in the Nashville’s WLAC-TV which is now called the WTVF-TV in where she has covered many stories like John Tesh, who worked at a competing Nashville station.
She left for Baltimore channel WJZ-TV as a co-anchor for the six o’clock news in the year of 1976. She was later in the year of 1977, been removed as a co-anchor and has worked in the lower-profile job at the very station. With her persistence, grit and potential she went on and on and yes she’s in the middle of the achieved and unleashed still packed with power.
Oprah Winfrey Quotes
1 You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
2 The best of times is now.
3 The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
4 When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
5 Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
6 The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
7 Turn your wounds into wisdom.
8 Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
9 Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
10 I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
11 Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey Quotes and Biography 2022
