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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to unmarried teenage parents in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. Already Oprah had a stack of obstacles ahead of her as a baby. Her parents were unmarried teenagers, she was female, she was black and she was very poor. Oprah spent her first six years of childhood being raised on a Mississippi farm by her religious grandmother. She taught Oprah to read and write by a young age. At three Oprah had begun her public speaking career reciting sermons in church.