Oprah Winfrey

When I had finished opening my school in South Africa and Maya Angelou wasn't allowed to come.

because she had the flu, wasn't allowed to come.

She didn't come because she had the flu.

I flew directly from South Africa to North Carolina to sit at Maya's table to tell her about the opening of the school.

And I said, oh, Maya, Maya, Maya, this school is going to be my greatest legacy.

And she said, you have no idea what your legacy is going to be.

I said, oh, no, no, no, no.

I know this school is going to be it because the girls, the girls, you know, they're just so smart and they believe in education and they want it and they're hungry for it.

And she said, I said, you have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is not one thing and it certainly isn't your name on a building.

And even though the girls will go on and they will do great things in their lives and

Your legacy is every life you have touched.

So how will I be judged?

I will be judged by every life I have touched.

Just recently, Gail said to me, you know, all these people are doing memoirs and you still haven't done a memoir.

And I said, you know, I think about it.

I've had contracts to do it and then backed out of the contracts to do it.

I go, but I'm not worried about it.

Because the real story to be told, the real judgment of the life, which is the question from the wild card, the real judgment is whose life did you touch?

What did you do when you were here?

That's how you will be judged.