great speeches

The world is opening up to the fact that genius does not stem from individuals like us on stage, but rather genius emerges from the collective. We are all products of our context. We are all descendants of something and someone.

And I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to

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From JK Rowlings' 2008 Harvard speech, this line: “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”