【正文】 ing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as i familiar to anybody here? eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 oprah winfrey show was number one in our time slot for 21 years and i have to tell you i became pretty fortable with that level of a few years ago i decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey initials just worked out for one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a just a flop but a big bold flop they call can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline “oprah, not quite standing on her own.” i mean really, usa today? now that39。m going to go to harvard and i39。m even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of harvard unless you studied the ancient greek hero with professor nagy as we were ing in this morning said “please , walk decisively.”i shall walk is what i want to doesn39。re down there in the hole, it looks like this past year i had to spoon feed those words to when you39。s an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, , scientist, physicist, winners of nobel and pulitzer prizes or late night talk show the challenge of life i have found is to build a resume that doesn39。t just tell a story about what you want to acplish but story that39。t always clear in the beginning because as i said i had been on television since i was 19 years around 39。t just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe it is both possible and more importantly it bees powerful to e together in mon purpose and mon saw something on the bill moore show recently that so reminded me of this was an interview with david and francine lost their 7 year old son, ben in the sandy hook even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be said this, she said “our hearts are broken but our spirits are 39。t agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is we cannot do that any problem is too has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.” in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is yet, i know you know the all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24hour cable news my channel, by the understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the second amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our don39。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。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。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 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。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 deal