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Oprah Winfrey Receives the Cecil B. deMille Award - Golden Globes 2018
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thank you
thank you
thank you all
okay okay
Thank You Reese in 1964 I was a little
girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my
mother's house in Milwaukee watching an
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 after the stage came the
most elegant man I had ever seen I
remember his tie was white and of course
his skin was black and I'd never seen a
black man being celebrated like that and
I have tried many many many times to
explain what a moment like that means to
a little girl a kid watching from the
cheap seats as my mom came through the
door
bone tired from cleaning other people's
houses but all I can do is quote and say
that the explanation in Sidney's
performance in lilies of the field amen
amen amen amen
in 1982 recently received the Cecil B
deMille Award right here at the Golden
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