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The three things that I want to leave with you,
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The three things that I want to leave with you,
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just these three, I could do ten,
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I could do a whole life class.
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But just these three things will carry you if you let them.
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First and foremost, knowing who you are.
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Knowing who you are.
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Being able to answer this question, who am I?
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and what do I want?
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You know, many times when I go out of the country,
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I am baffled by that question to explain what is your occupation.
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I've stood there for 10 minutes.
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Well, am I talk show host?
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Well, I'm more than a talk show host.
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Am I a businesswoman?
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I'm a businesswoman.
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I'm more than a businesswoman.
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Am I entrepreneur?
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I'm more than an entrepreneur.
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So I just leave it blank or self-employed.
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So I'm not asking for the roles that you play as daughters,
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I'm not asking that question.
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What are the roles that you play as a daughter,
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as a friend, as a sister?
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You're going to be a lawyer,
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you're going to teach, you're going to be a pharmacist.
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I'm asking the bigger question of who am I?
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Who am I really?
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My answer is I am God's child.
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I am I am that which is born of all
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that is I am as Pierre de Chardin said a spiritual
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being having a human experience come trailing the breath of the ancestors yet
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but trailing the breath of the angels and understanding that because I am connected to the source of all that is,
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all that is possible is possible for me.
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That's who I am.
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And what do I want?
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I don't want to just be successful in the world.
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I don't want to just make a mark or have a legacy.
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the answer to
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that question for me is I want to fulfill the highest
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truest expression of myself as a human being I want to fulfill the promise
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that the Creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells
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that made up me what do I want you You must have some kind of vision for your life.
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Even if you don't know the plan,
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you have to have a direction in which you choose to go.
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I never was the kind of woman who liked to get in a car and just go for a ride.
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I had a boyfriend who would say,
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let's just go for a ride.
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I wanna know where are we going?
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Do we have a destination?
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Is there a plan?
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Are we just riding?
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What I've learned is that's a great metaphor for life.
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You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you're not,
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life will drive you.
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So, knowing who you really are in this space and time that we embody,
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that's number one what do you want who are you number two you must find a way to serve
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Martin Luther King said that not everybody can be famous
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but everybody can be great
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because greatness is determined by service now we live in a world where everybody wants to be famous
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and where we admire people for just being famous we think
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being known brings us value the truth is all of
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that will fade in time the real truth is that service
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and significance service and the significance that you bring to your service is
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that which is lasting so to be able to whatever your occupation
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or job or talent
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or gift is our honorees today getting doctorate degrees to apparently opposite fields HIV
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and AIDS and the spoken word
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but what they have in common is service using the spoken
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word in service to community in the world using your knowledge
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and information about HIV and AIDS and medicine in service to the world
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and if you look at all the most successful people in the world whether they know it
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or not they have that paradigm of service.
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For many years I was really just happy to be on TV
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and people would stop and say oh you on TV yeah I'm on TV.
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I like being on TV it's a nice job.
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And it was about the time
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that I received my honorary doctorate from Spellman around 1993
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so I don't know if that had something to do with it I thought of myself as Dr. Winfrey.
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that I went back
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and I took a long look at what it was I was doing on on TV
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and made a decision that I was no longer going to just be on TV
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but I was going to use TV as a platform as a force for good
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and not be used by TV and I will tell you
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my decision to make
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that significant change in the way I operated on television using television as a service changed my career exponentially
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service through medicine service through art using whatever it is you
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produce your product as a way of giving back to the world
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when you shift the paradigm of whatever it is you choose to do to service
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and you bring significance to that success will I promise you follow you service
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and significance equals success that's number two number three it's so simple but so hard to do always
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do the right thing always be excellent people notice
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think of how you notice you go to Taco Bell somebody gives you extra napkin
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and some sauce you notice you want to go back to that person because even at At Taco Bell,
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excellence shows itself.
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Be excellent.
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Let excellence be your brand.
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Everybody talks about building a brand.
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I never even knew what that was.
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When people say, you're a brand,
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I would say, no, I'm just Oprah.
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What I recognize now is that my choice to in every way,
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in every example, every experience to do the right thing
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and the excellent thing is what has created the brand years
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ago I did an ad for Revlon for for an ad they were doing called unforgettable women
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and what I know is that
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when you are excellent you become unforgettable people remember you you stand out you become an unforgettable woman
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and that is what we all want we want to be unforgettable and not forgettable so doing the right thing
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even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing,
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we'll always bring the right thing to you.
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I promise you that.
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Why?
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Because the third law of motion is always at work.
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For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
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That is so true in all of our lives.
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That's what Newton said.
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Celia in The Color Purple said it.
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Everything you even try to do to me.
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already done to you.
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Everything you even try to do to me, already done to you.
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So you don't have to worry about revenge or getting back at somebody,
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making sure they pay.
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You just have to do the right thing and the right thing will follow you,
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even when people don't support it.
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I remember many times on my show,
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there are many shows y'all never saw,
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and the reason you didn't see them is because I got the last vote.
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And I remember 2010, my team,
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hardest working team in television,
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had done this interview with a woman who,
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turns out she was a Sunday school teacher by day and a sex addict at night.
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Ooh.
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They were like, you won't believe it.
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We got her going out.
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We got her with the men.
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We get to show her,
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and she was willing to show us everything.
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I sat down with a woman for an interview that was taped.
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And during the process of the interview,
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I said, why are you doing this?
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And she said, oh, I want to help people.
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I want to tell my story and I want to help people.
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I said, do you have children?
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She says, yes, I have a 10-year-old son.
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I knew right then this is never going to see the light of day.
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So we got off the air and I said to the lady,
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we are not going to air that show.
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And she said, why?
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My producer said, why?
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She knew she was being filmed.
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She knew what she was saying.
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She knows what you...
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I said, because her son will never get over it.
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Her son will never get over it.
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And it's not worth a rating point to me,
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not worth a rating point to me,
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to know that there's a 10-year-old boy
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who's destroyed because his mother went on the Oprah Winfrey show and told all her business.
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You do the right thing,
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even when other people think it may not be.
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And oftentimes when you make a decision to do the right thing,
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immediately you're faced with doubt.
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Was that the right thing?
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Was that the right decision?
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I don't know.
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Was that the right thing?
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You always know it's the right thing when in the end there is peace.
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You are rewarded by peace in knowing that you did the right thing.
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The most important thing I have come to know in doing the right thing
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and making the right choices is understanding what we talked about yesterday.
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All of you leaving here have the potential for enormous success.
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a price that comes with that people don't always like you
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and they're not always happy for you and
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if you surround yourself with people who are not accustomed to your success they become fearful they become scared
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because you are reflecting back something to them that they don't recognize now they're not going to say,
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you know, I'm very fearful because you're reflecting back to me something I don't recognize.
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They're going to say, you know what they're going to say?
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They're going to say, who she thinks she is.
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Who she thinks she is.
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That only happens when you are around people who do not mean and want and aspire to the best for you.
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People who want the best for you want you to be your best.
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So my greatest advice to you
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is to surround yourself with people who are going to fill your cup until your cup runneth over.
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So when people say you're so full of yourself, you can say, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm full I'm so full my cup runneth over
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and to know
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that once your cup runneth over you cannot spend your life with your gallon size offerings offering them to pint-sized people
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You have got to surround yourself with gallon sized people who can hang in the same company with you.
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Choice to change the world.
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I love that song.
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I love hearing you all sing that song.
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And what I know for sure is that the biggest choices begin and end with you.
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your internal big questions.
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Who do I want to be in the world?
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To know that and to choose to do the right thing in service and significance.
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I promise you, you will create a vessel of service for yourself first because you have to honor yourself first.
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You have to give to yourself first.
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Otherwise, you have nothing to give away.
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You will create a vessel for yourself,
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for your family, your community and the world.
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And those three things will not only lead you to a blessed life,
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it will lead you not just to a gifted life and a rewarding life that fills you up,
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but a sweet life.
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that's what you want you want the sweetness you want it to be
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so sweet so that even when the storms come and they will you'll know this too shall pass
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this too shall pass the storm is passing over and you shall not be moved because you know who you are.
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When you can do that, grace will follow you.
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Grace and glory.
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And when they see you coming,
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it ought to make them proud.
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They say it's the click of your heels.
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It's the bend of your hair.
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It's the palm of your hand.
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It's the need for your care because you a woman.
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You a Spelman woman.
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Phenomenally, phenomenal class of 2012.
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Thank you.
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