This is an update of the 1/8/18 blog.
The Internet, twitter have been a buzz with thoughts about Oprah Winfrey becoming the democratic presidential candidate in 2020, as a foil to the republican presidential office incumbent if he is still in the White House.
As per the 1/8/18 Washington Post report By Elahe Izadi, (Last) “night, the Los Angeles Times told Winfrey that “the Internet is saying Oprah for president in 2020. What does Oprah say?”
“I say, I’m just glad I got through the speech!” she answered. “I thought a lot about it. I wanted this to be a meaningful moment.”
But would she consider a 2020 presidential run? “Okaay!” she reportedly responded.
CNN, citing two anonymous individuals, said Winfrey’s confidants have been urging her for months to run for office. Brad Anderson, the Iowa state director for President Barack Obama’s reelection, tweeted, “Call me Oprah. I’ve got some Iowa county chairs who would love to hear from you.”
“It’s up to the people,” her longtime partner, Stedman Graham, told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. “She would absolutely do it.”
Her best friend, Gayle King, told the outlet: “I thought that speech was incredible. I got goose bumps.”
The following is a snapshot of how Oprah Winfrey Stole The Evening At The Golden Globes Awards ceremonies.
Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. Her speech focused on the #MeToo movement (Source for transcript is thanks to NY Times).
As per the 1/8/18 NY Times report, “A new day is on the horizon!” Oprah Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award, shouted toward the end of her eight-minute speech, which focused mostly on the #MeToo movement, noting that it was brought forth by the “insatiable dedication” of journalists and women, like the recently deceased Recy Taylor, who have spoken up to tell their stories.”
“When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men,” Ms. Winfrey said. She received multiple standing ovations — some people stayed standing as she spoke — and finished her comments with an assertion of hope, looking forward to “the day when nobody ever has to say #MeToo again.”
On January 7, 2018, Madeline P. Berg of Forbes penned the following report, “What Oprah Winfrey, The Star Of The Golden Globes, Had To Say Backstage.”
Excerpts:
“The real winner of the 2018 Golden Globes had nothing to do with the films or television series up for awards. Oprah Winfrey—the talkshow host, philanthropist, producer, actress and businesswoman—stole the show with a moving and cohesive speech that touched on everything from racial equality to press freedom to sexual harassment and brought tears to the star-filled audience.”
“Winfrey—whose unsurpassable compassion and relatability has brought her both incredible fame and fortune—made the memorable speech as the first African American woman to ever accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award, honoring her contributions to the world of entertainment. (With a net worth of $2.8 billion, Winfrey is the only billionaire to have, herself, won an award.”
“Following her acceptance, Winfrey headed backstage to answer questions posed by various members of the press. Her answers demonstrated the same balance of justifiable frustration and hope that her speech did and further addressed the Time’s Up movement, while also turning to her personal journey—and, of course, including some Oprah Winfrey wisdom.”
“The greatest lesson I’ve learned throughout my career came from Maya Angelou actually. After I’d known her for a while, she said, ‘Baby, you know, you need to know that when people show you who they are, you believe them the first time. And your problem is that it takes you 29 times.’ I that has been one of my greatest wisdom-teachings: to assess from people’s behavior—their actions not just towards me, but towards other people—who they are. I think in business and in personal relationships that’s been my greatest lesson. Also staying grounded has been great for me.”
What humbles you right now?
“This humbles me! When they first called me and said they wanted me to accept this, I said, ‘I shouldn’t be the person to get the Cecil B. DeMille Award.’ You know why? I was working with Reese Witherspoon this past spring and winter, and I happened to say in the makeup room one morning, ‘How many movies have you done?’ She goes ‘Oh, honey child, I don’t know. It’s been so many.’ And I then thought, ‘I hope she doesn’t ask me, because I think it’s been five.’ So I didn’t understand [the award], and then they explained it’s about overall entertainment.”
“I’m curious what wisdom you can pass on to me and my friends? We are film school scholarship recipients of the Hollywood Foreign Press. What wisdom can you pass on to the future generation here in Hollywood that wants to make movies?”
“The way to make movies is to do stuff that you love because for 25 years I worked on The Oprah Show, and, Stedman will tell you, there were nights I came home and it was hard to even take off my clothes because I knew I was going to be getting up 4 hours later. I felt exhausted, but I never really felt depleted.”
“Do the work that comes straight from the soul of you—from your background, from stories that you’ve grown up with, from stories that bring you passion, from stories that you not just yearn to tell, but that if you don’t tell them, they won’t get told.”
“The single greatest wisdom I think I’ve ever received—other than when people show you who you are—is that the key to fulfillment, success, happiness, contentment in life is when you align your personality with what your soul actually came to do. I believe everybody has a soul—has their own personal, spiritual energy—so when you can use your personality to serve whatever that thing is, you can’t help but be successful. So if you do films that come from the interior of your soul—you do work, you do art—that comes from the interior of you, you cannot miss.”
“It’s only when you’re doing stuff that you think may make money, you think may be a hit or you think may bring you some level of attention or success, that isn’t what does it. I would have to say that all of the great, wonderful experiences of my life that have brought me to this moment, have come from working from the interior of myself. And so that’s why it feels so authentic, because it actually is. So when you do that, you’ll win.”
What advice would you give to seven-year-old Oprah about being a woman surviving in this world?
“At seven, I was so sad. At seven, all of my real love came from my teachers. I would say this to anyone in this room: You have no idea the power of noticing another human being and what it feels like when someone knows they have been seen—truly seen—by you. It is the greatest offering you can give.”
“All those years at The Oprah Show, the greatest lesson I learned, was that after every show, someone would say, invariably, in one way or another, “How was that?” I’d finish an interview of a father who killed his twin daughters, I’d finish an interview with a politician—Barack Obama, Joe Biden, George Bush—or with Beyonce. They all say the same thing: ‘How was that?’
“So I started to see that there is this common thread in our humanity where everyone wants to know ‘How was that? Did I do okay? Did you hear me? Did what I say mean something to you?'”
“So I would say that recognizing that in other people has helped me be able to become a person of compassion, a person of understanding, a person who can interview anybody about anything, because I know that the core of you is the same as the core of me, you just want to be heard.”
“Last year when Meryl Streep won this award, it was a very different time—Trump had just won, and since then we’ve had all of the allegations. With your speech, with everyone in solidarity in black tonight, do you feel that the country together as a whole is moving in a better direction that we moved last year?”
“I always think and know—having watched it over the years, through thousands and thousands of interviews and watching people in their dysfunction—that when something really negative is brewing, that there is the direct opposite reaction that is also possible. For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. So when something as big as what started to happen in October with Harvey Weinstein started to unfold, I though ‘Woah, woah, woah.’ And with every day’s revelation, I thought, here is an opportunity for a powerful growth, and how do we use this moment to elevate what is happening instead of continuing to victimize ourselves.”
“So I think that wearing black in solidarity is one step. I think what Time’s Up is doing with a legal defense fund is a major step. It was very important to all of us involved with Time’s Up that it not just be about the women of Hollywood, because we’re already a privileged group, but to extend to the women of the world. As I said tonight, there isn’t a culture, a race, a religion, a politic, a workplace that hasn’t been affected by it. One of the reasons I wanted to tell Recy Taylor’s story is because it’s been happening for a very long time—when people didn’t know that they could speak up. There are so many women who have endured so much and remained silent and kept going because there was no other recourse. And now that we’ve all joined as one voice, I think that it feels like empowerment to those women who have never had it.”
Gronda Morin 
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Good post about Oprah Winfrey and the Golden Globe award ceremony.
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Dear Suzanne,
For me, the highlights of the evening are presented in this blog. I am sure you have heard the wish in people’s hearts that would love for Oprah Winfrey to be President Trump’s nemesis.
Thanks a million times over for all of your support and for this reblog.
Hugs, Gronda
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Dear OikosRedaktion,
This was a beautiful evening highlighted by Oprah Winfrey speaking movingly about the “Me Too” movement.
Thanks a million for your support and for this reblog.
Hugs, Gronda
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reblogged on suziland too and said “If you missed the Golden Globes, you missed hearing something incredible and moving. You can hear it now.”
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Dear Suze,
It was an incredible evening where the movement, Me Too got top billing. Oprah Winfrey did justice to the movement as she reviewed the Recy Taylor story. Peoples were in tears.
Thanks a million for your support and for this reblog.
Hugs, Gronda
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Gronda, her speech was very impressive. What I found of additional interest was how she could get her message across without specifically denigrating someone by name. Her message on needing the media was a clear remark toward the President, but she did not need to call him out by name. Keith
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Dear Keith,
Oprah Winfrey has always been gifted in bringing the best out of peoples she meets versus always looking for a way to belittle someone like our president does.
He had actually stated that he would have liked her to be his VP.
For right now, the media outlets have risen to the task at hand.
There are some calling for her to run in the 2020 for the presidency..She would be the perfect foil to President Trump.
Hugs, Gronda
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Oprah would make an interesting presidential candidate. Has our election process devolve into some kind of superficial popularity contest? Why don’t candidates address real issues anymore, it’s all media driven propaganda and juvenile social media hits.
I guess we all deserve our leaders, unless we collectively WAKE UP, we will continue to manifest reality TV stars and daytime talk show hosts! Do we really want these ppl to be leaders of the “Free” world? Really!? 😦
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Dear 1EarthUnited,
Oprah Winfrey is a person of substance who cannot be bought off or dissuaded from doing what is in the best interests of our country, US national security, the American peoples and the protection of our constitution and our democracy.. Over the years, she has proven her bona fides in caring for average Americans. She is a self-made billionaire.
She would be a force to be reckoned with that her foes cannot easily intimidate. I, for one, would love to see her do this.
Hugs, Gronda
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I agree that Oprah is an American icon, a lovely caring intelligent self made person. But is she really the best person qualified to lead this country? I suppose if Ronald Reagan and Trump could do it, why not her.
Personally i feel there are more qualified presidential candidates available to us who have the best interests of our country, US national security, the American peoples and the protection of our constitution and our democracy, but with much more practical experience. Otherwise we’ll end up living in an Idiocracy, electing lunatics as President with nothing more than oversize egos and delusional dreams.
I really like Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D), U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. She was also the Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
She also served in the military and has extensive foreign policy experience, she has been a supporter of a non-interventionist foreign policy. Her credentials speak for itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
People, please don’t make the same mistake of turning the 2020 election into a popularity/ celebrity contest. As a consequence we have an idiot in the White House! As well meaning as Oprah is, she’ll be just as clueless as Trump. We need real leadership with real abilities and a solid track record, not TV celebrities. We have become the laughing-stock of the world!
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Dear Ravenhawks magazine,
What an amazing evening! We may have listened to an outstanding speech by a future US president, Oprah Winfrey.
Thanks a million times over for all your support and for this reblog.
Hugs, Gronda
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Astounding. I am humbled and inspired for the future!
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Dear Roger,
There is hope! The inside scoop is that US congressional republicans were made privy to inside research letting them know to expect a tsunami of Democrats winning in the 2018 mid term November elections.
They are reeling from discovering just how unpopular they are. Their bubble has been burst.
And then along comes Oprah Winfrey. Can you believe that republicans are saying that peoples shouldn’t vote for a celebrity to become a US president?
Hugs, Gronda
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They wouldn’t dare, but they’ll let the rabble of the Alt Right try: after all a woman and an African-American woman at that- which since Oprah is an American icon should mean they’d get into all sorts of a mix.
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What a interesting read! Thank you for sharing it. I am a middle class, unknown artist but I have been touched profoundly by Oprah as I am sure many have. Please look up Evita Peron, because history should explain something that I have no doubt some know, but may have forgotten. People who are poor,etc. will listen to and feel better sharing with someone they feel truly understands their situation. Oprah talked of when she was a little girl and that most likely touched alot of people. People who are living through what she did in any way little or big felt she could relate to them because she seriously understood. She even spoke directly to them, because it no doubt touched her on a personal level. I know who I’m speaking to, but in my belief that is exactly what she is meant to do. I have been watching Oprah and there are many with huge stories of overcoming different situations that she shares with the world. One interview I believe it was on her wonderful SuperSoul Sunday OWN Network, she shared situations my friend Kris Carr who is a cancer survivor with a very inspiring story had. People NEED to hear these stories! I know that I did, as a middle class disabled female artist I heard many cruel and just rude things growing up.I will not go into my story as this is not about me, but I absolutely needed the inspiration given by Oprah, Kris and many others! One of my favourite lines is from Marie Forleo who Oprah also interviewed. Marie says the world needs that special gift that only you have at the end of her show. Well, my wonderful Oprah supporters it is completely up to her on becoming president but I DO know the world needs that special gift that only she has. If she were running for office, she would not have time to do share the outstanding true stories of survivors and inspirational speakers with the world that she does today. She would not have time to interview them giving thousands the inspiration that may help them get through the next day. Yes, she is Oprah Winfrey, and she could hire a team, but even then she’d be limited on her time. She is not just Oprah Winfrey but a person, with feelings and health that needs to be watched after. My health was taken from me and no amount of money could fix that and I send my love to everyone in that world. May each of you know not to waste one single second of your life and if you have the chance to touch others may you take it. I truly, truly believe the world needs her to continue being the outstanding inspiration she is by helping to share true stories and giving a chance for outstandingly inspirational speakers to share their light with the world. I believe that is what she was meant to do, but I also believe that she should do what she wants to do. I respect her too much to even try to make the choice of what she should or shouldn’t do. She should do what her heart tells her to. I applaud everyone who was at the Golden Globes standing up for others. You never know when someone like me may be watching and you never know when you may have saved a life.
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Dear AngelasArtArea™/ArtCardsUnited.
WELCOME,
i admire your writing, your attitude and courage to live life to the fullest despite whatever obstacles are in your way.
This is the gift that Oprah Winfrey blesses peoples with who listen to her, that belief that each person can accomplish great things.
If she decides to run, she’ll work like the dickens to the best job possible.
There is another person who lifts folks up in a practical way, Joyce Meyers.
Thanks for stopping by and Hugs, Gronda
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Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
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