Oprah Winfrey

You and I are born three weeks apart. Mm-hmm. I was same age, born three weeks apart. And I was raised in the South, but I got out. My grandmother became ill. I was sent to live with my mother in Milwaukee just before I started school. Wow. So as I was reading your story, I was thinking, wow, not being raised in a segregated school. is the thing that made all the difference for me.

It's the thing that really gave me confidence because when I first moved to Milwaukee and I walked into kindergarten and I saw all these little kids reading, learning their ABCs, I was already a reader because my grandmother taught me how to read the Bible. So I was like, I'm getting myself out of here. You had a very different story.

It's the thing that really gave me confidence because when I first moved to Milwaukee and I walked into kindergarten and I saw all these little kids reading, learning their ABCs, I was already a reader because my grandmother taught me how to read the Bible. So I was like, I'm getting myself out of here. You had a very different story.

It's the thing that really gave me confidence because when I first moved to Milwaukee and I walked into kindergarten and I saw all these little kids reading, learning their ABCs, I was already a reader because my grandmother taught me how to read the Bible. So I was like, I'm getting myself out of here. You had a very different story.

Your story was the Catholic church is across the street from your house and run by black Catholic nuns. And when you go to this school, this is a school that the teacher's kids, the doctor's kids, the people who had, you know, higher paying jobs could afford to send their children to Catholic school. Your mother, who was a seamstress, had y'all dressed like Beyonce every day. Yeah.

Your story was the Catholic church is across the street from your house and run by black Catholic nuns. And when you go to this school, this is a school that the teacher's kids, the doctor's kids, the people who had, you know, higher paying jobs could afford to send their children to Catholic school. Your mother, who was a seamstress, had y'all dressed like Beyonce every day. Yeah.

Your story was the Catholic church is across the street from your house and run by black Catholic nuns. And when you go to this school, this is a school that the teacher's kids, the doctor's kids, the people who had, you know, higher paying jobs could afford to send their children to Catholic school. Your mother, who was a seamstress, had y'all dressed like Beyonce every day. Yeah.

You were dressed like Beyonce, and your name was Beyonce because that's your maiden name. And you go to school as this pretty little curly, cute-haired girl, and the nun says to you what on the first day?

You were dressed like Beyonce, and your name was Beyonce because that's your maiden name. And you go to school as this pretty little curly, cute-haired girl, and the nun says to you what on the first day?

You were dressed like Beyonce, and your name was Beyonce because that's your maiden name. And you go to school as this pretty little curly, cute-haired girl, and the nun says to you what on the first day?

Can you imagine going to school and your first teacher says to you, you don't belong here? You don't belong here. Yeah. Yeah. That's a life-defining moment.

Can you imagine going to school and your first teacher says to you, you don't belong here? You don't belong here. Yeah. Yeah. That's a life-defining moment.

Can you imagine going to school and your first teacher says to you, you don't belong here? You don't belong here. Yeah. Yeah. That's a life-defining moment.

But it made me fight, though. And also, well, it made you a fighter. That's so interesting that it made you a fighter because, you know, when I read that story, I thought I would have shrunk. It would have made me so insecure because I was raised like your mother was raised. I was raised to respect authority.

But it made me fight, though. And also, well, it made you a fighter. That's so interesting that it made you a fighter because, you know, when I read that story, I thought I would have shrunk. It would have made me so insecure because I was raised like your mother was raised. I was raised to respect authority.

But it made me fight, though. And also, well, it made you a fighter. That's so interesting that it made you a fighter because, you know, when I read that story, I thought I would have shrunk. It would have made me so insecure because I was raised like your mother was raised. I was raised to respect authority.

And if authority said this, then you've got to obey and you've got to, you know, color within the lines and not break the rules. It did the opposite to you. It made you fearless and a fighter.

And if authority said this, then you've got to obey and you've got to, you know, color within the lines and not break the rules. It did the opposite to you. It made you fearless and a fighter.

And if authority said this, then you've got to obey and you've got to, you know, color within the lines and not break the rules. It did the opposite to you. It made you fearless and a fighter.

Welcome back to more of my conversation. Several things I thought were defining moments. There is a story where the nun punishes you and you run across the street to home thinking your mother is going to stand up for you.