Oprah Winfrey delighted graduates at her alma mater Tennessee State University on Saturday, telling the story of how she fell one credit short of graduating as she launched the media career that would make her a household name.
“I said, ‘No sir. TV? Not really, sir, because my father says I have to finish school, and school is just too important,’” Winfrey recalled.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
He spoke to her father, and Winfrey took the job. Beginning the second semester of her sophomore year, Winfrey arranged to finish her classes by 2:00 p.m. so she could work at the television station from 2:30 to 10:30 and be home by her father's 11:00 p.m. curfew. Her success in life has come from God's grace and from listening to what she called the “still, small voice" inside while filtering out the noise of the world. That way “you begin to know your own heart and figure out what matters most,” Winfrey said. “Every right move I've made has come from listening deeply and following that still, small voice."“Unfortunately, you are going to encounter people who insist that it's not actually possible to make any difference,” she said.
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