The life of Oprah Winfrey

She's one of the most powerful women in the world – and the crowned "Queen of All Media."  This is the story of Oprah Winfrey.

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00:00Say to all the young people you too can rise because you are capable and you are brimming with the wisdom of all

00:08Who came before you?

00:11You

00:24When a girl is allowed to have value beyond her body

00:31Her family and her community begin to see her

00:38With

00:39With an eye of respect and

00:45Value for themselves, so I am in the value-building business for girls

00:51You

01:08Nothing is harder than standing up for yourself when you're 14 and not being believed and I was not believed by my own family

01:21You

01:51You

01:59Oh, I just love it when people underestimate you and you just exceed everything they ever thought you could do

02:22My audience comes from a cross-section around the country

02:25So I get I stay connected to what people real people are thinking and doing and want and so you want

02:51You

03:01There are millions upon millions of silent victims in this country that have been and will continue to be

03:10Irregular irrevocably harmed unless we all here do something

03:21I

03:29Feel like Oprah's everyone's best friend so I get to see one of my best friends today

03:33She might not know it, but we're like this

03:51You

04:14My personal definition of the humanitarian is one who understands that he is really human and

04:21Understands that everyone else is equally as human

04:44Opera has shown us that no matter what your background

04:50How impoverished or underprivileged you were

04:56You can become anything in life

04:59if you work and

05:02Study hard for it

05:21I feel like what I've done. It does not even compare to what I could do in the world

05:26I think that what the television show is is a foundation

05:30For a voice to speak to the world in a way that can have even deeper and greater meaning

05:35You

05:48Even with 40 Emmys the distinction of being the first black female billionaire

05:53Oprah's greatest strength has always been her ability to help us discover the best in ourselves

06:05I

06:20Make it very clear to all the press

06:24Everybody I'm not here because I'm making some grandstand because I'm thinking about running myself. I don't want to run

06:36You

06:38You

07:01Nobody can be powerful unless you are also authentic you cannot be powerful unless you're also real

07:08You