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THE MISFORTUNE BECAME FORTUNATE( OPRAH WINFREY)
The Queen of all media who was
raped at age 9: Oprah Winfrey
Best known for her multi-award winning talk show.
The Oprah Winfrey
Show — the highest-rated program of its kind in history —Oprah Winfrey is
dubbed as the ‘Queen of all
media’ and ranked as the richest African-American of the 20th century.
She was born into poverty in rural Mississippi, to an unmarried
teenage mother. who later said
that her conception was due to a
single sexual encounter and the
couple broke up not long after.
Her mother, Vernita Lee was a housemaid. Winfrey
had believed that her biological
father was Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner turned barber
turned city councilman who had
been in the Armed Forces when
she was born.
Decades later, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, sr. claimed to be her
biological father. She was later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood.
After Winfrey's birth, her mother
traveled north and Winfrey spent
her first six years living in rural
poverty with her maternal
grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley)
Lee who was so poor that
Winfrey often wore dresses made
of potato sacks, for which the local
children made fun of her.
Her grandmother taught her to
read before the age of three and
took her to the local church,
where she was nicknamed "The
Preacher" for her ability to recite
Bible verses. When Winfrey was a
child, her grandmother would hit
her with a stick when she did not
do chores or if she misbehaved in
any way.
Winfrey has stated she was
molested by her cousin, uncle, and
a family friend, starting when she
was nine years old, something she
first announced to her viewers on
a 1986 episode of her TV show
regarding sexual abuse . At 13, after suffering years of
abuse, Winfrey ran away from
home. When she was 14, she
became pregnant but her son died shortly after birth. She began going to
Lincoln High School ; but after
early success in the Upward
Bound program, was transferred to
the affluent suburban Nicolet
High School, where she says her
poverty was constantly rubbed in
her face as she rode the bus to
school with fellow African-
Americans, some of whom were
servants of her classmates'
families. She began to steal money
from her mother in an effort to
keep up with her free-spending
peers, to lie to and argue with her
mother, and to go out with older
boys. Her frustrated mother once again
sent her to live with Vernon in
Nashville, Tennessee, though this
time she did not take her back.
Vernon was strict, but
encouraging, and made her
education a priority. Winfrey
became an honors student, was
voted Most Popular Girl, and
joined her high school speech
team at East Nashville High
School, placing second in the
nation in dramatic interpretation.
She won an oratory contest,
which secured her a full
scholarship to Tennessee State
University, a historically black
institution , where she studied
communication. Her first job as a
teenager was working at a local
grocery store. At age 17,
Winfrey won the Miss Black
Tennessee beauty pageant.
She also attracted the attention of
the local black radio station,
WVOL, which hired her to do the
news part-time. She worked
there during her senior year of
high school, and again while in
her first two years of college.she landed a
job in radio and began co-anchoring
the local evening news at the age of
19. She got transferred to the
daytime-talk-show arena because of
her emotional ad-lib delivery.
She became a millionaire at age 32
when her talk show went national.
She is credited with creating a more
intimate confessional form of media
communication. Forbes’ international
rich list has listed her as the world’s
only black billionaire from 2004 to
2006 and as the first black woman
billionaire in world history. As of
2014, she has a net worth in excess
of 2.9 billion dollars and has
overtaken former eBay CEO Meg
Whitman as the richest self-made
woman in America.
"If you wouldn,t quit, you wouldn,t lose. If you wouldn,t give up, you will get up" just try, whether you are crawling, walking, runing or flying, don,t stop,keep moving you will surely get there in just a matter of time. Be patience.
No matter how you were born, you are not a biological accident. You were born for a purpose and if you will persist with patience you will surely fulfil that purpose.
THE MISFORTUNE BECAME FORTUNATE( OPRAH WINFREY)
The Queen of all media who was
raped at age 9: Oprah Winfrey
Best known for her multi-award winning talk show.
The Oprah Winfrey
Show — the highest-rated program of its kind in history —Oprah Winfrey is
dubbed as the ‘Queen of all
media’ and ranked as the richest African-American of the 20th century.
She was born into poverty in rural Mississippi, to an unmarried
teenage mother. who later said
that her conception was due to a
single sexual encounter and the
couple broke up not long after.
Her mother, Vernita Lee was a housemaid. Winfrey
had believed that her biological
father was Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner turned barber
turned city councilman who had
been in the Armed Forces when
she was born.
Decades later, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, sr. claimed to be her
biological father. She was later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood.
After Winfrey's birth, her mother
traveled north and Winfrey spent
her first six years living in rural
poverty with her maternal
grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley)
Lee who was so poor that
Winfrey often wore dresses made
of potato sacks, for which the local
children made fun of her.
Her grandmother taught her to
read before the age of three and
took her to the local church,
where she was nicknamed "The
Preacher" for her ability to recite
Bible verses. When Winfrey was a
child, her grandmother would hit
her with a stick when she did not
do chores or if she misbehaved in
any way.
Winfrey has stated she was
molested by her cousin, uncle, and
a family friend, starting when she
was nine years old, something she
first announced to her viewers on
a 1986 episode of her TV show
regarding sexual abuse . At 13, after suffering years of
abuse, Winfrey ran away from
home. When she was 14, she
became pregnant but her son died shortly after birth. She began going to
Lincoln High School ; but after
early success in the Upward
Bound program, was transferred to
the affluent suburban Nicolet
High School, where she says her
poverty was constantly rubbed in
her face as she rode the bus to
school with fellow African-
Americans, some of whom were
servants of her classmates'
families. She began to steal money
from her mother in an effort to
keep up with her free-spending
peers, to lie to and argue with her
mother, and to go out with older
boys. Her frustrated mother once again
sent her to live with Vernon in
Nashville, Tennessee, though this
time she did not take her back.
Vernon was strict, but
encouraging, and made her
education a priority. Winfrey
became an honors student, was
voted Most Popular Girl, and
joined her high school speech
team at East Nashville High
School, placing second in the
nation in dramatic interpretation.
She won an oratory contest,
which secured her a full
scholarship to Tennessee State
University, a historically black
institution , where she studied
communication. Her first job as a
teenager was working at a local
grocery store. At age 17,
Winfrey won the Miss Black
Tennessee beauty pageant.
She also attracted the attention of
the local black radio station,
WVOL, which hired her to do the
news part-time. She worked
there during her senior year of
high school, and again while in
her first two years of college.she landed a
job in radio and began co-anchoring
the local evening news at the age of
19. She got transferred to the
daytime-talk-show arena because of
her emotional ad-lib delivery.
She became a millionaire at age 32
when her talk show went national.
She is credited with creating a more
intimate confessional form of media
communication. Forbes’ international
rich list has listed her as the world’s
only black billionaire from 2004 to
2006 and as the first black woman
billionaire in world history. As of
2014, she has a net worth in excess
of 2.9 billion dollars and has
overtaken former eBay CEO Meg
Whitman as the richest self-made
woman in America.
"If you wouldn,t quit, you wouldn,t lose. If you wouldn,t give up, you will get up" just try, whether you are crawling, walking, runing or flying, don,t stop,keep moving you will surely get there in just a matter of time. Be patience.
No matter how you were born, you are not a biological accident. You were born for a purpose and if you will persist with patience you will surely fulfil that purpose.
