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In an emotional evening that saw Winfrey wiping away tears and leaning heavily on longtime partner Stedman Graham, the former talk show host accepted the Academy of Motion Picture's Arts & Science's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given periodically for philanthropic efforts.
"I never imagined receiving an Oscar, especially for doing what is part of my calling, part of my being," said Winfrey, 57, who gave an Oscar-nominated performance in 1985's The Color Purple and was a producer on the films Beloved and Precious.
"If you are not a former colored girl born in Mississippi in 1954," she said, "it is impossible for you to know what this journey has meant."
"I never imagined receiving an Oscar, especially for doing what is part of my calling, part of my being," said Winfrey, 57, who gave an Oscar-nominated performance in 1985's The Color Purple and was a producer on the films Beloved and Precious.
"If you are not a former colored girl born in Mississippi in 1954," she said, "it is impossible for you to know what this journey has meant."
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