Super Woman

When I hear the name Oprah, I don't picture a well dressed business woman standing on the set of her talk show. Instead, I tend to see Oprah more as a combination of superhero and savvy business woman mixed. It's sort of like taking Superwoman's costume and putting it on Oprah...except the suit isn't made out of spandex. Sorry Oprah, it's just not flattering.

The reason I say this is because of all the amazing things Oprah has done throughout her career. She has her own talk show (which has earned her a number of Emmys), she's a book critic, an actress, owns a successful magazine, and she has a whole of money. She's worth somewhere around the neighborhood of 2.5 billion dollars. Not bad, not bad at all. That amount makes her the worlds only black billionaire. Congratz to you Oprah.

Despite all of her accomplishments, I think the thing that really amazes me about Oprah is her power. I think a good demonstration of this power lies in her book club. Oprah can take a never heard of author and sky rocket them to instant stardom if she gives the book a good review, like she did with James Frey and A Million Little Pieces. Unfortunately, this book turned out to be a fraud and it's never good for your career when Oprah denounces you on national television.

More and more I see Oprah's name everywhere I look. It's on magazines. It's on headlines. On television shows, spoofed in movies, and even managed to make its way into my AP tests. The last one I really got a kick out of. I was taking my AP Lang test and out of nowhere, POW!, it starts talking about Oprah! You know you've made it big time if your name appears in a college board test.

As much power as Oprah has, I don't think I'll be worried until her face starts getting stitched into my toilet paper.