Oprah Winfrey is a true winner and should be an inspiration to everybody. She overcame tremendous disadvantages and odds like being bought up in a poor black neighborhood, school dropout, sexually abused and an unwed mother at 14 (child died in infancy), completely broke and living on government dole. From this depths of hopelessness, she rose to became the richest African American billionaire, the greatest black philanthropist in American history and the arguably the most influential woman in the world and in the process helping thousands of others.