[ SECRET POST #4057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4057 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Not to mention, although she's been incredibly rich and powerful for a long time now, she still has had the experience, in her life, of being dismissed, undermined, talked over, and talked down to because she happens to be black and female. She experienced that a long time ago when she was first attempting to make it in the industry, and I would bet that in some minor ways she still sometimes experiences it now. Even though she's Oprah, I bet she still gets people who persist in talking to her like she's lesser because they can't wrap their heads around the fact that a black woman is so much more experienced and powerful than they will ever be.

Also, I recently watched a Hollywood Reporter round table with her and a bunch of other actresses, and she basically started by acknowledging herself as the least experienced actor at the table and saying she felt she probably knew less about acting than the others. My jaw kind of dropped. I mean, this was Oprah! I never would have imaged her being so humble. I felt so much respect for her, that as someone who had to fight hard for a long time to gain the power and authority that she has, she's still totally cool with acknowledging when other people may have more knowledge on something than she does.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally. I don't so much see that as being humble as I see it an acknowledgement of fact. Oprah's done some excellent, key roles in key movies, but that's not what she's known for and it's not her day job. Her career is not primarily in acting. It's like 5'3" me sitting down in a group of professional basketball players acknowledging that I'm not the tallest person in the room. I'm not being humble, that's just a statement of fact.

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Yeah, but it was mighty big of her to freely acknowledge the other women's greater experience. She didnt have to. It would've been easy for her to dominate the conversation. She had the most power, and is very good at speaking with commanding authority. She chose to put the others at ease, and she did it by acknowledging a genuine dearth of experience on herthe part (comparatively speaking). That shows a lot of candor, confidence, and humbleness imo. I'm not even an oprah "fan," I was just really impressed.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, remember when she said as a child she was so poor that she had a cockroach as a pet?