Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Source: In A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing, ed. James Charlton, 1994.
-- Oprah Winfrey, (Jan 29 1954-____), US talk show host, actress; She is a well known talk show host who also Sophia in The Color Purple, 1985.