23 O Talks Insights That Will Feed Your Soul
If there's one thing Oprah loves, it's getting to know what makes people tick. All is revealed in some of our favorite moments from O Talks....
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Sidney Poitier
October 2000
Oprah: I read that shortly after you were born, you weren't expected to live because you were delivered so prematurely.
Sidney Poitier: I was expected to be dead within two, three days. I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. She went throughout the black sections of Miami, where I was born, looking for help to save her child. She went to the church, and she went to the few people she knew. Absolutely heavyhearted, my mom passed a fortune-teller's stall, and she sat with this lady. She said, "I need you to tell me about my son." And the woman said, "Don't worry about your son. He will not be a sickly child. He will walk with kings."
Read the full interview from the October 2000 issue.
From the
May 2015 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
