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【正文】 at i know for 39。s when your story gets really angelou always says “when you learn, you get, my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.” so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in did it in an analog was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just 39。re the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said you39。d be too disappointed, you39。d be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in XX election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater 39。s who you generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for can you say “ at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentican authentic way of being, honesty, and above all have to say that the single most important lesson i learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a mon denominator in our human of us i tell you we don39。t want to be we want, the mon denominator that i found in every single interview, is we want to be want to be have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question ”was that okay?“ i heard it from president bush, i heard it from president 39。ve heard it from heroes and from 39。ve heard it from victims and perpetrators of even heard it from beyonce and all of her finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says ”was that okay?“ friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange i will tell you they all want to know one thing: was that okay? did you hear me? do you see me? did what i say mean anything to you? and even though this is a college where facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more facetoface conversations with people you may disagree you39。ll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn39。t cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else39。s shoes and recognize all that we share as a is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.”there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,“ says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada canada, and that was the end of me being cracked myself up on 39。t stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the fort of college and putting those harvard credentials to the no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around howard thurman said it said ”don39。t ask yourself what the world yourself what makes you e alive and then go do that because what the world needs is people who have e alive.“ the world needspeople like michael stolzenberg from fort michael was just 8 years old michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his in an instant this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed in losing who he once was michael discovered who he wanted to refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the boston marathon bombing would bee new amputees michael decided to banish that darkness with and his brother harris created to raise 1,000,000 dollars for other the time harris runs the XX boston than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this boston munity the way their munity came together to support when this 13 year old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this ”first they will be 39。re losing something they will never get back and that39。s was they39。ll be just don39。t know that yet. we might not always know might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives but i have faith that no matter what class of XX you will be okay and you will make sure our country is have faith because of that 9 year old girl who went out and collected the have faith because of david and francine wheeler, i have faith because of michael and harris stolzenberg and i have faith because of you, the network of angeles sitting here of them kadija williams who came to harvard four years had attended 12 schools in 12 years living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug deale