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(Announcer) Stanford University.
（播音员）斯坦福大学。
(Presenter) Please join me in welcoming Issa Rae.
（主持人）请和我一起欢迎伊萨·雷。
Hello, good morning! Thank you guys for the warm welcome. Thank you for hosting me.
大家好，早上好！谢谢你们的热情欢迎。谢谢你们招待我。
Thank you to the president for having me here, and the student body presidents for nominating me.
感谢校长邀请我，感谢学生会主席提名我。
It's such an honor and privilege to be your class of 2021 commencement speaker.
很荣幸能成为大家2021年毕业典礼的演讲嘉宾。
I'm both delighted and terrified to speak here at my alma mater, and what is, hands down, the best school in the world.
能在母校演讲，我既高兴又害怕，这所学校无疑是世界上最好的学校。
And I can say that, I can say that because I've been to every school on Earth. So, you can trust me.
我可以这么说，因为我去过地球上的每一所学校。所以，你们可以相信我。
Before I start, I just want to acknowledge, as the speakers before me have, that you guys are incredible for making it this far.
在我开始之前，我想表达感谢，正如我前面的演讲者所说，你们能走到这一步真是不可思议。
Obviously, this past year and a half has tested so many of us.
显然，过去一年半，我们中的许多人都受到了考验。
And I can't imagine having to muster up the enthusiasm, much less the strength, to finish getting my degree while the world was falling apart around us, but you fuckin' did it.
我无法想象当我们周围的世界分崩离析时，我不得不鼓足热情，更不用说力量，来完成我的学位，但是你们做到了。
And I promise you that despite the insanity and uncertainty you've endured,
我向你们保证，尽管你们经历了疯狂和不确定，
you will cherish these years and the people around you for the rest of your life.
但你们的余生都会珍惜这些年和身边的人。
And you can actually trust me on that.
在这件事上你们可以相信我。
It took me leaving here to realize it, but this place is truly amazing.
我离开斯坦福才意识到这一点，但这里真的很棒。
You can get a good education anywhere, honestly, no shade, Stanford, but what made Stanford special for me was two things.
你们可以在任何地方得到良好的教育，老实说，可能没有差别，但斯坦福对我来说有两个特别之处。
One, it granted me the room to make a space for myself if I didn't see one,
其一，在我没有看到的情况下，这里让我可以为自已创造一个空间，
which in turn, gave me the confidence to create a space for myself when I officially entered the outside world.
这反过来使我拥有了信心，让我得以在正式进入外部世界时为自己创造空间。
And two, most importantly and life-changingly so, is the community it allowed me to build.
其二，最重要也是改变人生的是，斯坦福让我建立了一个社群。
The community I built at this school is, without a doubt, the reason I was able to pursue my dreams, and why I was asked to speak here today before you.
毫无疑问，我在这所学校建立的社群是我能够追求梦想的原因，也是我今天被邀请在你们面前发言的原因。
And so this morning, I'd like to walk you through how this community shaped me, if that's okay with you. Thank you. Thank you for that approval.
所以，如果你们不介意的话，今天早上我想带你们看看这个社群如何塑造了我。非常感谢。谢谢你们的认可。
So it actually all started here for me.
对我来说，这一切都是从这里开始的。
I remember sitting where you all sat, in my own graduation, a lot closer together, when I was 22.
我记得我22岁的时候，在我自己的毕业典礼上，我坐在你们坐的地方，当时我们彼此之间坐得更近一些。
My friends and I had just done the hypest wacky walk of all time. I'm standing by that.
我和我的朋友们刚刚完成了一次有史以来最疯狂的散步。
We carried a boombox, and we were blasting Boosie, Foxx, and Webbie's "Wipe Me Down" remix.
我坚持这一点。我们随身带着一个音响，正在播放在Boosie、Foxx和Webbie的歌曲《Wipe Me Down》的混音版。
That iconic song would serve as our personal anthem for future birthdays, holidays, more graduations, weddings, reunions, kickbacks, and congratulatory celebrations.
这首标志性的歌曲将成为我们未来生日、假期、更多毕业典礼、婚礼、团聚、休闲和祝贺庆典的个人赞歌。
I didn't realize it at the time, but the opening bars of that bop would serve as a personal mantra for me and the way I moved through my community, and through my own spaces in life.
我当时并没有意识到这一点，但这首歌的开头几个小节将成为我个人的口头禅，以及我在社区和自己生活空间中的行动方式。
But more on that later. A couple of months prior to our graduation, there was a rumor that started spreading that Oprah was gonna be our commencement speaker.
稍后我们再细说。在我们毕业前几个月，有谣言开始传播，说奥普拉将成为我们毕业典礼的演讲者。
And we were all excited as hell. I was especially hype because Oprah was and is one of my core three inspirations, along with Diddy and Ellen.
我们都兴奋得要命。我之所以特别大肆宣传，是因为奥普拉过去是，现在也是我的核心三大灵感之一，另外两个灵感来源是迪迪和艾伦。
This was 2007, so chill on me. I couldn't believe that Oprah herself was gonna come and send off our class into greatness.
那是2007年，我太激动了。我真不敢相信奥普拉会亲自将我们的班级送往光明的前途。
It was like, "Wow! What a way to go out!"
就像是，“哇！多好的毕业方式啊！”
And then a few weeks before, it was announced that we were getting a poet laureate to speak. And I said, "A poet what-eate?"
几周前，有消息称我们将请一位桂冠诗人来发表演讲。我说，“诗人吃什么？”
And I was triggered because I've never been cultured enough to enjoy just raw poetry. My shit needs to be cooked a little. But I still went in with an open mind.
我被触动了，因为我从来没有足够的修养去欣赏原始的诗歌。我的废话需要稍微改一下。但我还是抱着开放的心态进入了演讲现场。
However, you can't play a song like "Wipe Me Down," and then just sit down and listen to dry words, no matter how brilliant they were, and they were.
然而，你不能播放像《Wipe Me Down》这样的歌，然后坐下来听枯燥的言论，无论它们有多精彩，它们都是枯燥的。
So unfortunately, my mind closed really quickly.
不幸的是，我的大脑很快就关闭了。
And in my defense, I was so hype off of the adrenaline of finally entering into the next phase of my life,
我要为自已辩解一下，我对终于能进入人生下一个阶段感到极为兴奋，
and I tuned everything out to cherish the final moments with my friends for the last time we'd all be in the same city.
所以我完全没有听演讲，而是珍惜和朋友们最后一次在同一座城市的最后时刻。
So we were quietly cracking jokes, laughing and sharing memories with one another in the audience via text. And in hindsight, it was disrespectful.
我们悄悄地讲笑话，嘻笑，通过短信与观众中的其他人分享回忆。事后看来，这是不尊重的行为。
