Category: Oprah Winfrey

“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

“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

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“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.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.”
-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.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
-Oprah Winfrey