I wrote and published a book on self-esteem in 1997. It has a unique title: “Your Sperm Won — Experiencing Your Value As A Championship Human Being”.
After “Your Sperm Won” was published I mailed a copy to Oprah Winfrey. I also went to visit Oprah’s father, Vernon Winfrey, and gave him a copy which he said he would send to Oprah. I appreciated his help very much.
So would you like to know what “Your Sperm Won” is about. Let me quote a commencement address that Oprah gave for Salem College in 2000. (I found it on the web.) Oprah gives a perfect description of my book:
“The wonder and the beauty of it stops me cold. When you think about how each of us came into being, I think of my father Vernon and my mother Bonita, who were only together one time because she wore a poodle skirt that day. A sperm meets an egg and a life comes into being, but it is so much bigger than that. I am not here because Vernon and Bonita decided to stop on the way home from school one day. Nor are you. Your life is no accident; you were literally loved into being. You exist because God loves you.” –Oprah Winfrey
Did Oprah read my book? I think she did! And it sounds like it had an impact on her. Hey, Oprah, would you mind if I used your quote on the cover of the next edition of “Your Sperm Won”?