Originally Posted by ultramarina
...does anyone really pay serious attention to their commencement address? I don't remember mine. Do you?

Maya Angelou spoke at my commencement. I most definitely remember what she said: she inspired us. She told us that "someone would find a treatment for an incurable disease. Will it be you? Someone will find a new way to solve our energy problems. Will it be you? Someone will find a way to alleviate the disastrous effects of poverty. Will it be you?"

Then she sang to us.

Some people should just never die, and she was one of them. frown