Oprah Winfrey: Talk show host
Oprah Winfrey said...
"It's much easier for me to make a major life, multi-million dollar decision, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. "You say...
41 comments to date. The most recent comments:Veronica Capicotto from Grand-Way (July 1, 2010)
In dealing with the public in my job, I have noticed the difference between the ghetto and the suburbs. In the ghetto, women struggle with day-to-day decisions regarding life and the human condition, while in the suburbs, the struggle of women centers mostly around lipsticks, creams, and cosmetics. The correlation between the two environments is, of course, that whether from the ghetto or the suburbs, a woman should always strive to look her best.
Magdalena Cruz from Bronx,NY. (June 30, 2010)
First of all i would like to say that i LOVE OPRAH! She is a inspiration to me in everthing that i do. Years ago i was seeing this guy, and i knew he was married but i saw him anyway. He maked to me pregnant when i was only 20 years old.
He tole me he was leavin his wife and he wanted to be with me. To make a long story short he never did and after another 6 months he left for good. During this time i found the oprah show and it helped me a lot throw those times. It gave me the corege to live my life and be happy. I have since had 4 more babes with the same man becase i respect myself. He tole me he will marry me soon.
Coco Rodriguez from Newburgh, NY (June 30, 2010)
Dear Oprah,
It would also be wonderful when you do the book review if you could pick KEPT DOWN FROM RISING UP by LaKweesha McNabb. It is a inspirational story of this fat sista in *da Burgh* here who sat down to pee and got her fat ass stuck in the toilet seat. She could not get up and was stuck there for 3 days. The inspiration of the book is this: How her family and friends from all parts of the ghetto came together to help her, reading her the Lotto numbers and feeding her Mallomars until the 3rd day when somebody with a working cell phone called 911 and police and fire people was able to finally free her from the toilet seat, just in time to cash her welfare check. If you don't know about her book, maybe you saw the story on the news when it happened last year. They had LaKweesha, her 6 kids, and her 5 babbydaddys all on the news telling the story, and showed the broken toilet seat where the fire people had cut it to free her. I thought the news story was sad, but the tears were in my eyes as I was reading her book. If you can't find a copy of the book, I'll let you borrow mines, because you must read this! And it would be so wonderful if you could do the review of this book on your show with LaKweesha. God bless you Oprah Winfrey for all that you do, and please pick this book to review.
L. SANCEZ from SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (June 30, 2010)
dEAR oPRAH,
iT WOULD BE WONDERFUL WHEN YOU DO A BOOK REVIEW THAT YOU READ "CAPTIVE" by JERE VAN DYK, a riviting account about his 45 day captivity with the Taliban.
Millions of people watch your show and I think ths gentlman should tell his story to the world
I will miss your show when it goes off the air and, i'm sure you are fully booked with guests but, I just thought I'd try.
MikeAlike(PigCandy) from Brooklyn,New York (June 28, 2010)
Other peoples money shouldn't be the concern to other people and they should "mind" their OWN business. That's correct, people should mind their biz-niz (OWN)- and how rude of the public to talk or even think of using Oprah's financial situation against her or as a public topic. Just because Oprah likes to use other people as an example on television as a sort of moral import and Pius ruler, and uses their "business" be it personal, or financial as an example or topic on television, does not mean "you" or any person can or should do it to her. She's an "angel", whats wrong with you people?
Anyway, some terrible terrible group of people in Texas are planning to "re:write" history, while altering history books taught to school children. And "they" are planning to remove civil rights details from its history text in schools in Texas. That is so unlawful, intentional, and spiteful, rude.
After going to Oprah's website and realizing I had been duped or "ripped off" (in layman's terms) by sending submissions to her/that television programming, which Oprah's lawyers placed a disclaimer under that show's website/submit form, stating Oprah and her illustrious staff can alter any submission, change the dates, times or words of any submitted, story, plan, idea and they do not have to pay.... I thought to myself- is Oprah rewriting history or "changing the story around" as well in Illinois like they do in Texas? Of course not she and they are just being nice.
What do people think of Oprah ?
People say: Oprah Winfrey is smart. She is usually honest and somewhat sexy.
She is a powerful, classy and egotistical angel.
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Every Publicist's Wet Dream!
Oprah Winfrey is the host and producer of one of the most successful talk shows in the history of television, Oprah.
Winfrey was born to a very poor baptist family. Her mother, Vernity Lee, was a housemaid; her father, Vernon Winfrey was a soldier. Oprah was born when her parents were teenagers, and unmarried. Her early childhood was spent with her grandmother who took her to a church where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to memorize bible verses quickly and recite them in front of audiences. Her grandmother said that she was born with the ability to perform.
At the age of six Winfrey returned to her mother's care. With her mother she lived in poverty and suffered sexual abuse from various family members. She was impregnated by one of her abusers at 14; she gave birth to a premature stillborn boy. Soon after she was sent to live with her father in Nashville. He encouraged her education above all else. She became an honors student, and received a full college scholarship.
Winfrey's media career began at her high school radio show at the age of 17. She began working in local media, making her the youngest and first black female news anchor at WTVF-TV, Nashville. In 1976 she moved to Baltimore to co-anchor WJZ-TV's evening news. She launched WJZ's People Are Talking in 1978, which she co-anchored with Richard Sher.
In the early 80s Winfrey was in Chicago where she hosted WLS's local morning talk show, AM Chicago. The show was so well received that it was renamed to The Oprah Winfrey Show and broadcast nationally in 1986. The show is still extremely popular, and seen by over 21 million people weekly. Winfrey interviews celebrities, promotes charities, and has notable audience giveaways. For example, in the fall of 2004 she presented each member of the audience with a new Pontiac G6, where were donated by Pontiac for publicity.
Winfrey is a also a successful business woman. She co-founded Oxygen, a women's cable network. She is the president of Harpo Productions. She publishes O, The Oprah Magazine, and O, at Home. She has authored and co-authored over twenty books. Oprah has also appeared is a few films including The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (1998).
Oprah lives with partner Stedman Graham, a motivational speaker and author; the two have been together for nearly twenty years. Their home is in Montecito, California. She also owns homes in Lavalette, New Jersey, and Chicago, where she is based. She recently purchased property in Maui, Hawaii.
