Sun Rise In Life
29th January, 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, an unmarried teenage mother, gave birth – a baby girl. Her mother, Vernita Lee (born c. 1935), was a housemaid, her biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey (born 1933), a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman who had been in the Armed Forces when she was born. After her birth, her mother travelled north and She spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae, who was so poor that she often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which the local children were teasing her. Can you imagine that girl who probably had darkest Night of life, when she had to wear potato sacks as dress to hide her body? She was today’s OPRAH WINFREY.
AND Night still not ended here, it continues…at the age of six, she had to move at Milwaukee, an inner-city with her mother. Her mother was maid; she gave birth to another girl here. For her mother it was difficult to take care of both girls. She sent Oprah to Nashville temporarily. The darkest part of the life began here. Oprah was molested by her cousin, a family friend and even by her uncle. She was raped at age of 9. Night not stops here, it continues without shame. At 13, after suffering years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home. When she was 14, she became pregnant but her son was born prematurely and he died shortly after birth. She began going to Lincoln High School; but after early success in the Upward Bound program, was transferred to the affluent suburban Nicolet High School, where her poverty was constantly rubbed in her face as she rode the bus to school with fellow African-Americans. Her frustrated mother once again sent her to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee. Vernon was strict, but encouraging, made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honours student, was voted Most Popular Girl, and joined her high school speech team at East Nashville High School, placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She won an oratory contest, which secured her full scholarship to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, where she studied communication.
Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store. At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college. This was the first time after 19 years of life ever, she was able to say-
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In this morning time of her life she offered a job in Baltimore, Maryland. The job offer came up a few months before her graduation, she had to choose between the job and graduating, so she decided to choose the job in Maryland as the offer was very tempting but she wasn't a very good reporter and was shortly fired. Oprah's boss set her up as a talk show host on a morning talk show called, "People Are Talking". Immediately after the first show Oprah knew this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Oprah strengthened the talk show for seven years and she done job, polished her creativeness, produced ability and in 1981.
In 1981 Oprah sent recorded tapes of the show to a talk-show in Chicago called A.M. Chicago. They immediately offered her the job and in September of 1985 she changed the name of the show to, "The Oprah Winfrey Show". On September 8, 1986, The first episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was broadcasted. Rest is HISTORY.
NOW Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard University. She is now The Sun herself.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. You don't become what you want, you become what you believe. When you undervalue what you do, the World will undervalue who you are.
― Oprah Winfrey
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AND Night still not ended here, it continues…at the age of six, she had to move at Milwaukee, an inner-city with her mother. Her mother was maid; she gave birth to another girl here. For her mother it was difficult to take care of both girls. She sent Oprah to Nashville temporarily. The darkest part of the life began here. Oprah was molested by her cousin, a family friend and even by her uncle. She was raped at age of 9. Night not stops here, it continues without shame. At 13, after suffering years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home. When she was 14, she became pregnant but her son was born prematurely and he died shortly after birth. She began going to Lincoln High School; but after early success in the Upward Bound program, was transferred to the affluent suburban Nicolet High School, where her poverty was constantly rubbed in her face as she rode the bus to school with fellow African-Americans. Her frustrated mother once again sent her to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee. Vernon was strict, but encouraging, made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honours student, was voted Most Popular Girl, and joined her high school speech team at East Nashville High School, placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She won an oratory contest, which secured her full scholarship to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, where she studied communication.
Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store. At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college. This was the first time after 19 years of life ever, she was able to say-
SUN
RISE
IN
HER LIFE
In this morning time of her life she offered a job in Baltimore, Maryland. The job offer came up a few months before her graduation, she had to choose between the job and graduating, so she decided to choose the job in Maryland as the offer was very tempting but she wasn't a very good reporter and was shortly fired. Oprah's boss set her up as a talk show host on a morning talk show called, "People Are Talking". Immediately after the first show Oprah knew this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Oprah strengthened the talk show for seven years and she done job, polished her creativeness, produced ability and in 1981.
In 1981 Oprah sent recorded tapes of the show to a talk-show in Chicago called A.M. Chicago. They immediately offered her the job and in September of 1985 she changed the name of the show to, "The Oprah Winfrey Show". On September 8, 1986, The first episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was broadcasted. Rest is HISTORY.
NOW Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard University. She is now The Sun herself.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. You don't become what you want, you become what you believe. When you undervalue what you do, the World will undervalue who you are.
― Oprah Winfrey
eBook Sun Rise In Life by Naman Munshi
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