Summary of the article: Oprah winfrey by Sidney poitier.
Oprah Gail Winfrey born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954 to unwed teenage parents and living in segregation. The first six years, she was raised by her maternal grandmother who also had been taught her how to read and developed a love for books since then. she often heard her grandmother tell others that she was “gifted” as she recite speeches in church by the age of three and that makes her feel special and the feeling help her get through the difficult years with her mother. When she was six, she lived with her mother and half sister which bring her into physical and mental abuse from family members and their friends until one day, she saw poitier on television rerceived an academy award. She wondered what she could do.
Life with her mother became worse. Her father offered to take her and helped to turn her life around with strict rules and discipline. She do charity in Africa and elsewhere.
She was compassionate, well informed, dazzlingly curios and as down to earth and loving as any human being poitier ever known.
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