"Nothing About My Life is Lucky, It's All About Preparation" - Oprah Winfrey

She's an media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She's best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history. Several assessments regard her as the most influential woman in the world. She was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother, and experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, saying she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire. She has an estimated net worth of 3 billion USD.