You can read this quote from Oprah Winfrey in the September 2001 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. See how The Root chronicles her life in pictures here.

Oprah Winfrey became a star overnight after her self-titled talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired. A total of 4,561 episodes were produced, and still to this day, memories from the show stick with ...