Oprah Winfrey Delivers Inspiring Speech To USC Annenberg Graduates

 

Oprah shared some words of wisdom with some lucky USC graduates in the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism.

“Pick a problem, any problem, and do something about it. Because to somebody who’s hurting, something is everything,” she explained at their commencement ceremony. “You can’t personally stop anybody from walking into a school with an assault rifle. Nor can you single-handedly ensure that the rights that your mothers and your grandmothers fought so hard for will be preserved for the daughters that you may someday have. And it’ll take more than you alone to pull 40 million Americans out of poverty, but who will you be if you don’t are enough to try?”

The television and film icon urged the graduates to view their education as a privilege and use their education to change the world, stating, “I hold you in the light, and I wish you curiosity and confidence and wish you ethics and enlightenment and I hope you shake things up. And when the time comes to bet on yourself, I hope you double down. Bet on yourself. I hope you always know how happy and how incredibly relieved everybody is in this room that you’ve made it to this place.”