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Oprah Winfrey Bought 10-Carat Diamond Earrings Because of Diana Ross, Then Learned She Could Have ‘Quit Halfway’
['Mija Markovic']
Wealth of Geeks
Oprah Winfrey once turned Diana Ross’ storm-soaked Central Park concert into an unusually specific measure of success, owning diamond earrings as impressive as the pair flashing beneath the stage lights.
She later discovered that Ross’ earrings had actually been five carats, prompting the billionaire media mogul to joke that she “could’ve quit halfway through.”
There is a storm that came in Central Park, and she kept singing,” Winfrey said in the Glamour video.
“I strived until I could get my first 10 carats,” Winfrey said.
“We had not seen Black women look like that, we had not seen Black women be that glamorous, we had not seen Black women talk like that.