Oprah Winfrey's career began in 1957. At age three, she was speaking in church, by her teens she was touring the churches of Nashville, reciting the sermons of James Weldon Johnson. Other children sang, Oprah talked. And she's still talking, but to much larger audiences. The path that led from her grandmother's farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi to becoming the first African-American woman billionaire is a story of an amazing women with focus and unrelenting determination.
Taught to read by her grandmother at an age when most children are only learning to talk, Oprah became a voracious read. Oprah says books became her outlet to the world and the basis of her passionate belief in education. An actress of uncommon talent, her first feature film, The Color Purple, brought her an Oscar nomination. Her rise from reading the news on a small radio station to being the first woman in history to own and produce her own television talk show illustrate the strong force that is Oprah winfrey......
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