Oprah Winfrey 24 Powerful Lessons and Insights From Oprah Winfrey Most of the world has now heard of the rags to riches story of Oprah Winfrey who grew up in the poverty-stricken Mississippi and the slums of Milwaukee only to rise to the prominence and wealth of being one of the world's only African American women to achieve the status of billionaire within her lifetime.With a modest start in journalism on a local television network, she created what...