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Oprah Winfrey's public speaking career began in 1957. At three, she was speaking in church, by her teens she was touring the churches of Nashville, reciting the sermons of James Weldon Johnson. Other children sang, Oprah talked. And she's still talking -- but to much larger audiences. The path that led from her grandmother's farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi to becoming the first African-American woman billionaire is a story of unwavering focus and unrelenting determination.
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In 2007, " talk show host Oprah Winfrey took an AIDS test at her new $40 million South African school for disadvantaged girls, hoping to set an example to pupils in one of the world's most infected nations. Winfrey said when she opened the school earlier this week she hoped that a better education would help shield South African girls from contracting HIV.
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Oprah has been invited to a celebrity wedding at last! Though you should read it with a gram of coke grain of salt, The Sun reports that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are set to wed in a village near Johannesburg, South Africa, before Christmas, and Oprah is tagging along as a celebrity guest. Afterward, they'll go orphan shopping, round up a camera crew to film them reading books to children with AIDS, and announce Oprah and Angelina are just "special friends."
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Here's a video that Oprah did that is a nice outline of Oprahs dream to open her South Africa Leadership Academy for Girls. She goes on the explain how the idea came about. Also, if anyone would like to contribute to this Oprah blog, please comment here. Oprahs School is full of inspiration and the occasional funny and serious bits.
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Oprah Winfrey admits that she was "devastated" by the allegations of physical and sexual abuse at her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. But looking back at the institution's tumultuous first year, Winfrey says "I don't regret" opening the school.
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(CBS/AP)Oprah Winfrey said Monday she wept for half an hour when she heard a dorm matron was accused of abusing students at her school for disadvantaged South African girls. She promised to "clean house" starting with the headmistress.
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