In Oprah's newest profile about life after the Oprah Winfrey Show, she discusses how she was absorbing the emotions of her guests on the show to an unhealthy degree and how it took her some time to adjust to not being overscheduled but she's now more content than ever.
When she decided to leave Chicago, she originally looked at plantation houses in the South
“I thought it would be the ultimate comeuppance, the ultimate finger. Like, ‘Look who’s in the big house now.’"She realized there was no way for her to avoid the bugs and humidity so she bought property in Monecito instead and she has hundreds of avocado trees.
She takes photos with every fan who asks:
"If you don't want to be a parade, then don't go to the parade."Oprah still doesn't want to be president:
"I do a few things really well. But I don't want to manage. I don't want to spend my days and nights creating policy. I want to continue to be involved with stories that allow people to see the best of themselves, to find a higher good."She still signs her own checks.
Reese Witherspoon said Oprah could've had her own trailer for the 4+ hours of daily hair and makeup required for the A Wrinkle in Time shoots, but she chose to share with Reese and Mindy Kaling.
“One of the reasons I love A Wrinkle in Time is because I get to play this grand, wise, angelic creature, and one of the things she says is, ‘The darkness is spreading so fast these days; the only thing that is faster than light is the darkness.’ I really do believe that we are going through some dark times, so you have to make a choice not to be pulled into it,” she says. “Not just to resist but to transcend. I specifically work on being a carrier of the light.”SOURCE
