Chapter 23 (IKWCBS)

Students, parents and esteemed colleagues. You have all come so far in these past 4 years. Many of the goals that you had set for yourselves in your freshman year, you have accomplished. And this now shows you, that you are capable of achieving your dreams.

To see how far African-American people have come in the past 40 years is incredible. There are absolutely no limits to the things that you can become and the things that you can do. For people like Barrack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Martin Luther King Jr., who saw how hard it was to work you're way up in a world that saw them differently and thought little of the things that they could do proves how strong you really are. It also shows what can be accomplished if you keep working towards your goal, no matter what stands in your way.

All of you intelligent men and women have proven that you are capable of doing anything if you just set your mind to it. No matter the color of your skin, or what you religion may be, each one of you is a strong individual who has worked their way up and proven time and time again that we are all equal. And that success should not be about what you look like or you believe in, but how you got to where you are now, and what you had to overcome.