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Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah and Tarana Burke - Part 2

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of this powerful conversation, activist Tarana Burke tells Oprah about the spiritual awakening that led to her creating the #MeToo movement.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.0

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.0

now.

0:24.5

Welcome to part two of our conversation.

0:27.2

How is about, I think you actually had a dark night of the soul. Feels like it. It felt

0:36.3

like a spiritual fever dream, like something mystical and miraculous was happening that

0:46.7

actually brought you to the moment where you realized that your life needed to be a service

0:53.1

for other people. Tell us about how we got to be too.

0:58.2

So let me say, for the last four years, people have asked me the story of me too and I have

1:02.9

obviously never told that story because I thought, how do you say this in the public?

1:06.5

Right? How do you say this in the media and a sound by people are going to think you

1:11.2

are not really well, right?

1:13.5

But I had to tell the whole story in the book and I am a Christian, you know, and I was

1:19.8

more of a practicing Christian at the time and I do believe it was just a spiritual experience

1:27.2

that needed to happen.

1:29.5

And I think the way God has moved in my life, when I look at Mount, God moves in my life

1:33.5

very swiftly, very boldly.

1:36.6

And I look up one day and I'm here and I'm like, oh God, did you, you just said it two

1:41.2

minutes ago? Why am I here already?

1:44.3

And that night it was, I was so tired and I was, I don't know how to describe this feeling,

1:54.8

but I'm trying to give away the book too, but I had to do all of these things in Selma.

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