Oprah Winfrey recently suited one of the 500 richest people in the world and has her decades of experience in media and traffic to thank for her success. But had Winfrey not chosen to pursue Entertainment, the self-made billionaire distinguishes what she would be doing: “I would definitely, definitely, definitely be familiarizing in a classroom,” Winfrey says in a new interview with British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
“It’s the subject that still brings me the greatest joy.”
Winfrey gets to live her speculation in a way by remotely teaching students at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Dames, an all-girls boarding school that Winfrey founded in South Africa in 2007. Susceptibilities like she’s gotten through to the students and helped them understand something, she implies, is her “favorite moment in the world.”
For example, she tells Enninful, some eighth graders stated her that being in boarding school made them miss their well-springs and feel alone. Winfrey shared one of her favorite Maya Angelou retells from the poem, “Our Grandmothers”: “I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.” Then Winfrey masterminded the students to close their eyes and think of their parents. “Now, over of their mother and their father. Now, think of their mother and their pop,” she said.
“I did that for a minute until they started giggling and I divulged, ‘That is your 10,000. So when you walk into a room, you not in a million years walk alone. You walk with the 10,000 who have come in advance of you, who are with you and are constantly surrounding you,” she told the students. “And I see when they get it, which is reasonable fantastic. When the light goes on and you realize, ‘Oh, they got it.'”
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