Oprah Winfrey

I remember it was a feeling that came over me.

No, I won't.

Watching her with the moisture from her breath in the cold and pulling the sheets out of this big pot, I thought, this will not be my life.

And I don't know how I knew that.

How old were you again?

I was between four and five because I left when I was six.

But I don't know how I knew that.

I just could feel inside myself that this is not going to be my life.

And because by that time, I'd already been raised in the church by my grandmother, who was really strict religiously and religiously.

I didn't know that I had a father or mother other than God.

So I was told that God is your father.

So I thought Jesus was my brother.

I mean, and if Jesus is your brother.

Then you can do anything.

So when I moved from my grandmother, after my grandmother became ill, I was sent to Milwaukee to live with my mother, whom I did not know.

Right, right.

And she had moved to Milwaukee as a part of what I now know was the Great Migration, people looking for a better life there.

And she was also a domestic worker and living and rooming with this woman who was a very light-skinned Black woman.

And I think I'm healed from it, but my eyes still water when I tell the story.

Very light-skinned black woman who saw the color of my skin and told my mother that I was not allowed to come in the house.