【正文】 build a legacy not from one thing but from remember when I just opened my school in 2007, I came back and I had the great joy of sitting at Maya Angelou’s hadn’t been able to attend the opening in South I said to her, “Oh, Maya, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, that’s going to be my greatest legacy.” I remember she was standing at the counter making biscuits, and she turned, she put the dough down, and she looked at me and she said, “You have no idea what your legacy will be.” I said, “Excuse me? I just opened this school and these girls, and it’s going to be…” And she said, “You have no idea what your legacy will be, because your legacy is every life you touch, every life you touch.” That changed it’s true you can’t personally stop anybody from walking into a school with an assault rifle, nor can you singlehandedly ensure that the rights that your mothers and your grandmothers fought so hard for will be preserved for the daughters that you may someday it’ll take more than you alone to pull 40 million Americans out of poverty, but who will you be if you don’t care enough to try? And what mountains could we move, I think, what gridlock could we eradicate if we were to join forces and work together in service of something greater than ourselves? You know my deepest satisfactions and my biggest rewards have e from exactly a problem, any problem, and do something about to somebody who’s hurting, something is , I hesitate to say this, because the rumors from my last big speech have finally died down, but here it attention to what the people who claim to represent you are doing and saying in your name and on your represent you and if they’ve not done right by you or if their policies are at odds with your core beliefs, then you have a responsibility to send them they go low, thank you, Michelle Obama, if they go low, we go to the died for that right, they died for that think about it every time I cast a don’t let their sacrifices be in couple other thoughts before I a good …it really pays your bills on your thank you to people and actually really mean for help when you need put your phone away at the dinner sit on it, know that what you tweet and post and Instagram today might be asked about in a job interview tomorrow, or 20 years from nice to little kids, be nice to your elders, be nice to animals, and know that it’s better to be interested than in a quality ’m telling you, your back will thank you don’t cheap out on your …and if you’re fighting with somebody you really love, for god’s sakes, find your way back to them because life is short, even on our longest another thing, another thing you already know that definitely bears repeating: don’t ever confuse what is legal with what is moral because they are entirely different see, in a court of law, there are loopholes and technicalities and bargains to be struck, but in life, you’re either principled or you’re , do the right thing, especially when nobody’s while I’m at it, do not equate money and fame with acplishment and character, because I can assure you based on the thousands of people I’ve interviewed, one does not automatically follow the else, something need to know job is not always going to fulfill will be some days that you just might be days, you may not feel like going to work at remember that your job is not who you are, it’s just what you are doing on the way to who you will …every…every remedial chore, every boss who takes credit for your ideas – that is going to happen – look for the lessons, because the lessons are always the number one lesson I could offer you where your work is concerned is this: Bee so skilled, so vigilant, so flatout fantastic at what you do – that your talent cannot be finally, this: This…this…this will save paring yourself to other ’re only on this planet to be you, not someone else’s imitation of had to learn that the hard way, on the air, live, anchoring the night in my twenties, when I first started broadcasting, I was 19, moved to an anchor by the time I was I was just pretending to be Barbara was just trying to talk like Barbara, act like Barbara, hold my legs like I was on the air, I hadn’t read the copy fully, and I called Canada, I did that on the cracked myself up, because I thought, Barbara would never call Canada that little breakthrough, that little crack, that little moment that I stopped pretending allowed the real me to e life journey is about learning to bee more of who you are and fulfilling the highest, truest expression of yourself as a human ’s why you’re will do that through your work and your art, through your relationships and your to quote Albert Einstein, “Education is what remains after we forget what we’re taught.” You’ve learned a lot here at when all that you’ve been taught begins to fade into the fabric of your life, I hope that what remains is your ability to analyze, to make distinctions, to be creative, and to wander down that road less traveled whenever you have the I hope that when you go, you go all in, and that your education helps you to walk that road with an open, discerning mind.– discernment is what we’re missing – and a kind know, there are 7 billion planet…people on the planet right here you degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism: This degree you’re about to get is a ’s a that privilege obligates you to use what you’ve learned to lend a hand to somebody who doesn’t get to be here, somebody who’s never had a ceremony like the one you’re having this I hold you in the light, and I wish you curiosity and I wish you ethics and wish you guts – every great decision I’ve ever made, I trusted my gut – and wish you purpose and the passion that goes along with that here’s what I really hope: I hope that every one of you contributes to the conversation of our culture and our time, and to some genuine munication, which means, you have to connect to people exactly where they