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

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

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Once I was a little girl, I kept quotes because I love being able to have wisdom from other

people shared with me in such a way that it sticks with me. So I would take a little quote

and I'd put them on the mirror or I'd put them on my dresser or I'd have quotes on the

wall. And I remember growing up, there was a quote about, I do my thing and you do your

thing. I'm not in the world to live up to your expectations. I would put that on my

door so that my father would see it when he came across my room every time. So I've always

been keeping quotes my whole life. One of my favorite quotes that struck me, the moment

I heard it, came from my favorite author, my angel. Growing up, reading was my passion.

Books were my escape into a world that went beyond my front door. I loved her books.

I read, I know why the cage bird sings, I don't know how many times before I was an adult.

From the time I opened the first page and what you looking at me for didn't come to stay

only came to say, happy Easter day. Struck me because I was a black girl just like my

angelou growing up in the church being raised by my grandmother doing Easter pieces.

Imagine growing up and getting to become friends, not just friends, sister daughter, mentor

to my angelou. Unimaginable to me that that would happen. I would now say that she was

one of the greatest influences in my entire life. She was like a mother to me, a sister

to me, a friend to me, has been a great mentor for me. And I have sat at her table, sat

at her feet, sat on the side of her bed, sat on her floor, listened to her words of wisdom

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