cooking with oprah

Beloved (1998)

by Jonathan Demme

Who needs love when you have Mexican cheese doodles?

Oprah Winfrey and Brooke Shields, 1995

thepowerofblackwomen:

Ava DuVernay (First black woman to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar)

Oprah Winfrey (First woman to own and produce her own talk show)

Mo’ne Davis (First girl to pitch a shutout and win a game in a Little League World Series) for Time Magazine

And as you walk into what you fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you’re willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

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The Breaking Bad Interviews: Bryan Cranston

Have you heard of people being turned off by how full-on the first two episodes are?

What I love about Breaking Bad is that it’s pungent. It’s got a specific taste to it, and you have to have an adult sensibility to appreciate it, and not to disparage anybody who doesn’t like the show, but Oprah (Winfrey) told me, she said, ‘I just couldn’t take the acid bath. The guts and the blood… Argh!’ Whereas her friend Gayle (King - Editor-At-Large for O and co-anchor of CBS This Morning) was like, 'Oh, I loved that!’ So she’s on the path, whereas Oprah’s like, 'I c… c… can’t.’

“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.’“ #ThankfulThursday

WhenOprah Winfrey gives career advice, she gets me to listen. As a master orator, the media executive, former daytime talk show host and self-made billionaire makes a living out of finding divine meaning in mundane questions, like the difference between a job and a calling, or what you would tell your younger self.

For me personally, though, what has encouraged me through a layoff, career disappointment and unreasonable managers is her advice on how to handle challenging career losses that feel overwhelming.

One grim winter, when I was unemployed after a layoff and worried I was unemployable, I encountered a YouTube clip from Winfrey’s 2014 lecture to Stanford Graduate School of Business students, in which she shared the one piece of career advice she wanted to leave with them.

As soon as I watched it, I was transfixed by her ability to make the career story of failure I had been telling myself into a much bigger story about life:

“There is a supreme moment of destiny calling on your life. Your job is to feel that, to hear that, to know that. And sometimes when you’re not listening, you get taken off track. You get in the wrong marriage, the wrong relationship, you take the wrong job, but it’s all leading to the same path. There are no wrong paths. There are none. There is no such thing as failure really, because failure is just that thing trying to move you in another direction. So you get as much from your losses as you do from your victories, because the losses are there to wake you up.”

Her speech gave me the permission I needed to put those hard months into wider perspective. Yes, a layoff was a job loss, but it was not a failure in Winfrey’s eyes ― and shouldn’t be in mine, either. Winfrey said that when you understand that losses are there to wake you up, “you don’t allow yourself to be completely thrown by a grade or by a circumstance, because your life is bigger than any one experience.”

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My #Beliefin3Words: We Are Worthy.

Have you been watching Oprah’s heart-work #Belief on OWN? The epic seven night series continues tonight!

Film Hype #283.

Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.

The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.

Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

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