【正文】 ll be just don39。re losing something they will never get back and that39。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 cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else39。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。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。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。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。 you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of XX, are passionate you want to make a difference by serving in you want to launch your own television maybe you simply want to collect some parents would appreciate that about point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our you do that let me tell you what i know for 39。t have to be we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it39。m going to do that without fighting them.” and then her husband david added this, “you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn39。m going to tell them what it39。to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better this angel network, it didn39。94 i got really don39。t going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures i might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and pelling than anything that separates what had bee clear to me and i want you to know it isn39。s not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that39。s a resume that doesn39。t simply tell a story about what you want to be but it39。s the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you then figure out what is the next right the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional that can tell you which way to now and forever more when you google yourself your search results will read “harvard, XX”.and in a very petitive world that really is a calling card because i can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when i see “harvard” i sit up a little straighter and say “where is he or she? bring them in.” it39。re down in the hole, when that moment es, it39。re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the myth of icarus predicts that you will at some point when you do i want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as is just life trying to move us in another when you39。t matter how far you might some point you are bound to stumble because if you39。t know what motivation you were for me, thank 39。m going to speak the truth of it!so i39。t last always” from that hymn, “this too shall pass.” and i thought as i got out of the shower i am going to turn this thing around and i will be better for when i do, i39。s the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was was right around that time that president faust called and asked me to speak here and i thought you want me to speak to harvard graduates? what could i possibly say to harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when i had stopped succeeding? so i got off the phone with president faust and i went to the was either that or a bag of i chose the i was in the shower a long time and as i was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to may not know 39。t going to win under the swimsuit during the question and answer period the question came “why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” and by the time they got to me all the good answers were i had seen barbara walters on the today show that morning so i answered “i would like to be a would like to tell other people39。t heard before because after all you all went to harvard, i did then i realized that you don39。t even begin t