Oprah: Built in Baltimore

“I came to Baltimore when I was 22 years old. Drove my red Cutlass up from Nashville, Tenn., arrived and was as close to ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ as I could be,” Winfrey says in that rich, inviting voice that millions have tuned in to for decades. “I had no idea what I was in for or that this was going to be the greatest growing period of my adult life. … It shook me to my very core, and I didn’t even know at the time that I was being shaken.”

Source: Baltimore Sun
Published: May 18, 2011
Length: 13 minutes (3,295 words)
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