Read the full transcript of Oprah Winfrey's speech that fired up the Golden Globes
by Los Angeles Times staff, Los Angeles Times
Jan 08, 2018
4 minutes
Oprah Winfrey won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday's Golden Globes, making history as the first black female recipient. Her fiery acceptance speech will no doubt go down in history too, igniting speculation that maybe she has political aspirations.
Here's the full transcript:
Thank you, Reese [Witherspoon, who presented the award].
In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother's house in Milwaukee, watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: "The winner is Sidney Poitier." Up to the stage
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