Oprah Winfrey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So I remember being in my house in Montecito.
This is like two decades later, and I looked out the window, and there were the six trees.
But beyond the six trees were hundreds and hundreds of other trees, because I basically live in a forest.
I always said, when I get a house, I'm going to have me six trees in the yard.
And so I could have never dreamt that.
It leaves me in a state of constant gratitude, wonder, and awe.
Because I am a black woman born in racist, apartheid Mississippi at the time that I was born in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Education, but many years before that was instituted.
And the fact that I could come out of Mississippi and not be covered in bitterness and anger and confusion about where I belonged or didn't belong, that is God.