“All life is energy,” she said as the bands changed from white, to red to yellow. “I want some sunrise faith — knowing for certain, no matter how dark it gets, Auburn Hills, the sun will always rise.”
Winfrey rose from below onto a stage set up like a catwalk that she would pace throughout the night as she addressed the audience during her two-hour talk. She began at the beginning, speaking about when she was a 3-year-old standing on her grandmother’s porch in Mississippi, the first time she felt there was more to her purpose in life than to follow in her grandmother and mother’s footsteps and be a maid.
“My grandmother was boiling clothes in a big black pot. She says, ‘Oprah gal, you better watch me now, one day you might have to learn to do this for yourself,’” said Winfrey. “That voice, that little feeling inside myself said, ‘nah-uh. This is not going to be my life.’”