Oprah Winfrey Quotes

• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  Oprah Winfrey

• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  Oprah Winfrey

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  Oprah Winfrey

• I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career.

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• I’m not even kind of a lesbian.

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• I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me.

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• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.

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• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

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• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.

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• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

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• I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.

  Oprah Winfrey

• I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

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• I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

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• For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.

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• Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  Oprah Winfrey

• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

• 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.

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• I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.

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Oprah Winfrey (82)

Birth:	29th January, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist

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