Oprah Winfrey

Because I am a black woman born in racist, apartheid Mississippi at the time that I was born in 1954.

Born exactly the right time.

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.

That is something bigger than myself.

So I feel that there's a phrase that we use in the church, blessed and highly favored.

I feel like I have been blessed and

and highly favored by the hand of God, and have been blessed because I humbly understood what to do with it.

So I wasn't reaching for more.

Everything I ever had, I was using it as an offering to bring the audience along with me.

The same thing is true with this book.

The only reason I'm doing a book is because I've now discovered that it's not about willpower.

And I want all the people who are suffering right now, who started on Monday, the next diet, who started right after the new year, this is going to be the year, to know you're not going to do it with willpower.

Yeah.

It's all about the audience.

And the reason the show was so successful is not because we were ever thinking about ourselves.

That show was successful because it was built on the intention of the audience.

I remember calling the producers in one day after we'd done a show where we were all just, where I was embarrassed for myself.

We did a show where we got, the producers were so proud of themselves.

They'd gotten a guy who, we were doing a show on affairs and they got a guy who was having an affair to get his mistress to come on with him and also bring his wife.