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Commencement Of The Class Of 2015, Priya Triedi '15, Vinesh Kannan '15, Sheila Mb Griffin, Jamie N. Jones, Branson D. Lawrence, José M. Torres
Commencement Of The Class Of 2015, Priya Triedi '15, Vinesh Kannan '15, Sheila Mb Griffin, Jamie N. Jones, Branson D. Lawrence, José M. Torres
Ceremony
"Let me conclude my remarks this morning with a quote from Countee Cullen, a poet of the Harlem Renaissance who graduated from NYU, then Harvard University. He said, “For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth” (Countee Cullen).
Class of 2015, I ask: Will you be an asset or a liability? Class of 2015, will you give back and pay it forward? Class of 2015, will you invest in this world? Will you advance the human condition? …