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Super Soul Special: Oprah and Tarana Burke - Part 1

Oprah's Super Soul

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Unkindness Is a Serial Killer

"Unkindness is a serial killer because once it gets put out there into the world, you're unkind of somebody and then they take that energy and then they're unkind to somebody else," she says. "I was dealing with a whole bunch of stuff in my 12 year old life and I really wanted to be good." A young girl asked her father if he thought his daughter looked like a Maya - an ugly word for someone who isn't beautiful. The question made him equate ugly with badness too, right? You know? And that just, it just was this question in their mind.

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