A couple weeks I was thinking about Oprah. Oprah is truly larger than life and that's what impresses me most is that she is a living legacy. I picked up a 15lb book from the library that is full of dedications and stories JUST about Oprah retiring. It's not even a full life biography! This type of love and adoration is usually only seen at a eulogy. My thoughts are a bit jumbled since I just woke up, but the point that I'm getting at here is WHAT IS YOUR LIVING LEGACY? Not what people will say about you when you're gone and not the "top 3 words" your friends would use to describe you. If a book was put together today by those who love and know you what would fill those pages?
Below is one of those Oprah stories shared by one of my favorite actresses.
It is a universal conversation starter: Did you see what was on Oprah today?
It creates calm at the dentist; it can make a friend of a stranger on a bus; it binds mothers and daughters of all generation.
Oprah Gail Winfrey.
To be asked to speak on an occasion such as this has, to be honest, kept me up at night--all night--many, many nights.
It's not what to say, but could there ever be enough time to say it?
And I've been told I have three minutes.
So let's break it down here in front of God and the president. I think she is pretty damn close to perfect. And I don't mean boring, run-of-the-mill perfect. I mean fabulous, shining, margarita-drinking perfect. But as a friend, I must reveal and yet not tell too much.
In my late-night ponderings, I realize it is not the place she holds in the world, but how she holds it. And how, after so many years, the world holds her back.
The Oprah Winfrey Show first aired in 1986. I was just out of high school and had no idea that in three years I would be invited for the first time to appear on that show.
I was terrified, and Oprah was kind and supportive.
It is now one of the delights of my life that she is my friend.
The Kennedy Center Honor is--as I understand it--a lifetime achievement award for entertainment and advancement of American culture.
Well, she has done that and then some! She is tireless, brilliant, hilarious, and compassionate. She comes on television every day of the week and is our friend, a teacher, a leader, a listener.
The first time I heard about a better-fitting bra, the inner workings of Chicago's sewage system, 'Favorite Things," or a fascinating politician named Barack Obama was on the Oprah show.
She has led and taught and guided us all in such a gentle and consistent way that I think we have all not only benefited, we have, whether for a moment or a lifetime, become the best that we could be.
I would usually never be so bold as to speak for a culture of women, but I feel great confidence saying on behalf of the women in America: We thank you, and we are in debt to you.
Now, in the spirit of The Oprah Winfrey Show, if everyone could reach under their seats...
I'm so proud of you. I love you. Congratulations.
The best is ALREADY HERE (and I don't mean Oprah, I mean YOU),
~Adwoa
Below is one of those Oprah stories shared by one of my favorite actresses.
"Close to Perfect"
Delivered at the 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors by Julia Roberts
It is a universal conversation starter: Did you see what was on Oprah today?
It creates calm at the dentist; it can make a friend of a stranger on a bus; it binds mothers and daughters of all generation.
Oprah Gail Winfrey.
To be asked to speak on an occasion such as this has, to be honest, kept me up at night--all night--many, many nights.
It's not what to say, but could there ever be enough time to say it?
And I've been told I have three minutes.
So let's break it down here in front of God and the president. I think she is pretty damn close to perfect. And I don't mean boring, run-of-the-mill perfect. I mean fabulous, shining, margarita-drinking perfect. But as a friend, I must reveal and yet not tell too much.
In my late-night ponderings, I realize it is not the place she holds in the world, but how she holds it. And how, after so many years, the world holds her back.
The Oprah Winfrey Show first aired in 1986. I was just out of high school and had no idea that in three years I would be invited for the first time to appear on that show.
I was terrified, and Oprah was kind and supportive.
It is now one of the delights of my life that she is my friend.
The Kennedy Center Honor is--as I understand it--a lifetime achievement award for entertainment and advancement of American culture.
Well, she has done that and then some! She is tireless, brilliant, hilarious, and compassionate. She comes on television every day of the week and is our friend, a teacher, a leader, a listener.
The first time I heard about a better-fitting bra, the inner workings of Chicago's sewage system, 'Favorite Things," or a fascinating politician named Barack Obama was on the Oprah show.
She has led and taught and guided us all in such a gentle and consistent way that I think we have all not only benefited, we have, whether for a moment or a lifetime, become the best that we could be.
I would usually never be so bold as to speak for a culture of women, but I feel great confidence saying on behalf of the women in America: We thank you, and we are in debt to you.
Now, in the spirit of The Oprah Winfrey Show, if everyone could reach under their seats...
I'm so proud of you. I love you. Congratulations.
The best is ALREADY HERE (and I don't mean Oprah, I mean YOU),
~Adwoa
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