She won an oratory contest, which secured her full scholarship to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, where she studied communication. ... On 1985 Oprah finally got a chance to complete her dream of being an actress on the film 'The Color Purple' where she played as Sofia. ... This person has many talents but the most important and the one I believe has helped in the advancement towards black colored people is her charity and kind heart to help those who have a bad living quality. ... This person continues to impact the black people's history because s...

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As a talented actress, Winfrey has appeared in the motion pictures The Color Purple (1985), Native Son (1986), and in the television move The Women of Brewster Place (1989). ... She's also the first black woman to become a major influence in the world of entertainment and the first black women to become a billionaire. ... As a successful African American woman, she has shown American society what blacks are capable of. ...

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Oprah Winfrey As an actress, a television host, a communications executive, a reporter, and an African American woman, Oprah Winfrey proves to America daily that there is no stopping her. ... Winfrey, the first black woman to host a nationally viewed daily talk show, worked hard to get to the top and made it clear that the obstacles she faced were not going to discourage her. ... Along with favorable school grades, she won a number of beauty and talent contests such as Miss Fire Prevention, Miss Black Nashville, and Miss Black Tennessee. ... Winfrey's acting debut merited her nominat...

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I would like to think that if I had been born anything other than black and other than a black American women, that I had done something wrong in a former life and God was making me pay for it." ... In spite of a tragic beginning she has still managed to become a poet, a author, a historian, a actress, a playwright, a civil-rights activist, a producer, and a director. ...

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Maya the poet, the author, the play-write, actress, mother, civil rights activist, historian, director, producer; Maya the Genius. ... It was sometime around 1945 that Maya became the first black female conductor for the San Francisco streetcars. ...

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She's an African American who is not only a symbol for black people everywhere, but a symbol for all people. ... She is not only an award-winning actress, producer, media magnet and a philanthropist, but also she is among the most influential women worldwide....

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