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Winfrey wages quiet war on shame.(V PLUS: EYE ON THE OSCARS: GOVERNORS AWARDS)(Oprah Winfrey's charity work)
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There was no single moment when Oprah Winfrey realized she wanted to give back to those less fortunate. The urge was always with her.
"I always knew because I was a girl that got saved," says Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award honoree Winfrey. "I was saved by the kindness of people--some who knew me pretty well, others who didn't know me at all. I've never forgotten how that made me feel as a human being."
The multihyphenate, who founded the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and the now-shuttered Oprah's Angel Network, recalls an adolescence filled with shame over her family's …
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