Oprah Winfrey advised Smith College graduates to seek fulfillment by serving
others and live with intention during the school's commencement Sunday.
The author, actress and former talk show host addressed more than 600
graduates at the ceremony in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was among five
women who received an honorary degree from the women's liberal arts school.
Winfrey told the graduates to "shift the paradigm to service and the rewards
will come."
"This understanding that there is an alignment between who you are and what
you do is the real, true empowerment," Winfrey said.
One of Smith's graduating students, Morgan Mpungose, attended the Oprah
Winfrey Leadership Academy, a boarding school that the media mogul opened in
2007 for poor girls in South Africa.
Winfrey mentioned Mpungose in her speech, referring to her as Winfrey's
academy "daughter." Winfrey spoke of Mpungose's transformation during her time
at the school, and said the hope of seeing such transformations in other women
is what led her to found the academy.
"When you educate a girl, you are not just educating her," Winfrey said. "You
are educating her to create opportunities (for others)."
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