“Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. Later in the speech, the same storytelling skill is employed to bring the experience of Recy Taylor back in 1944 right into the room with the well-heeled Hollywood elite: And I’ve tried many, many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl - a kid watching from the cheap seats, as my mom came through the door bone-tired from cleaning other people’s houses.”Īnd just like that, only having spoken for about one minute, she has drawn us in. And I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that.
OPRAH WINFREY SPEECH CENTRAL IDEA SKIN
“…I remember his tie was white and of course, his skin was black and I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that. Then she saw Sidney Poitier awarded the Academy Award “In 1964 I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee…” With only a few words we are transported to her mother’s kitchen in Milwaukee. Oprah uses the power of story to grab our attention right from the start. Stories are a means of communication common across all cultures. Adding significant momentum and fueling the winds of change. In this speech, she throws her voice behind the growing chorus speaking out in what is now known as the #MeToo movement. When she welcomed a relatively unknown Senator, called Barrack Obama, things really started to change. Millions of people come to trust her for the way she demonstrated empathy in her interviews on the Oprah Show. For years, she was projected into our living rooms. You may have missed the impact she has had because she drives change from the inside. Through her media presence and notoriety, she has changed the way people think and feel about a whole range of issues from the banal (folding fitted sheets) to the fundamental (societal tendency toward victim-blaming) and everything in between. Throughout her career, Oprah Winfrey has been at the vanguard of change.
This short speech offers the everyday communicator some awesome lessons… The genius of this speech is that Oprah nails the zeitgeist – the right message, to the right audience at the right time. At the time, the MeToo movement was rapidly gaining worldwide momentum. This is a speech for the history books and speech that helped shape history. “For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. She used this occasion, and her powerful platform to make a stand. Oprah Winfrey was given a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on 7 January 2018.
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