公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第49期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(xué)(5)

And because of that, I've got to tell you the truth

這方面 我要給你們講真相

that one of my favorite place was the Quad

Quad是我最喜歡的地方之一

You see, in my freshman year, everybody asked medo I stay in Drew Hall

我在大一那年 所有人都問我是否待在Drew Hall樓

and I had to tell them, no, I stay in the Quad

我跟他們說 沒有 我待在Quad

And I actually stayed there until I got kicked out

我一直待在那里 直到被人踢出來

Ain't that right, Robyn?

對嗎 羅賓

I have my Howard girlfriend, she in the house

我曾在霍華德有一個女友 她在房里

I used to play in the Quad like

我會在Quad叫她

You're Robyn

羅賓

Come on down

下來

Now I've gone off topic for a second

我稍微有點(diǎn)跑題了

We're here today to celebrate

我們今天來這里是慶祝的

and I was just talking about our beautiful bison women

而我一直在講霍華德大學(xué)美麗的"野牛"女生

that is never taken for granted

這并不從來都是理所當(dāng)然的

When we have so much power in here, I think we need to step up to hashtag

當(dāng)我們有足夠力量時 我認(rèn)為我們應(yīng)當(dāng)開始#

All I want to say is bring back our girls now

我只想說 現(xiàn)在就把我們的女生找回來

Bring back out girls now

現(xiàn)在就把我們的女生找回來

My world was changed here at Howard

我的世界在霍華德得到了改變

On my second day of school

在我上學(xué)的第二天

I learned something that will change the course of my life for ever

我學(xué)到了之后會影響我一生的東西

I don't talk about the soft thing

這可不是一件輕松事

I was raised by a single mother in Harlem

我在紐約黑人區(qū)由單親媽媽拉扯大

My dad Mr. Melvin Combs died when I was 3 years old

我三歲那年 父親梅爾文·庫姆斯就不在人世了

My mother always told me that he died in a car accident

我媽總跟我說 他是死于車禍

There was something about that. It just didn't feel right

我總感覺有點(diǎn)不對頭

Something was in my soul that was telling me otherwise

我靈魂深處總覺得情況不是這樣

So as soon as I get here, I went to the library

來到這里后 我馬上就去了圖書館

and did some research

然后做了一些研究

I used the microfilm I found

我用我找到的微縮膠卷

to search through all the newspaper

到所有的報紙上進(jìn)行搜索

and when I typed in my father's name and the day he died

鍵入父親的名字和死亡日期后

I read in the answer in that news

我讀到了相關(guān)新聞

that he had been murdered in a drug deal gone bad

他其實(shí)是因?yàn)槎酒方灰资《蝗酥\殺的