Oprah Winfrey
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.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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.
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.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.