Denzel Washington - Put God First
Let me take this moment to wholeheartedly congratulate each and every one of you
today.
You graduated. You did it.
You made it.
Congratulations to you.
And you did it all by yourselves. Nobody helped you.
No that's not what I thought when I was
when i was young, I started to really make it as an actor.
I came in, I talked to my mother.
I said, "Ma, did you think that this was going to happen?
I'd be so big and I'll be able to take care of everybody
and I can do this and I can do that and I can."
She said, "Boy, stop it right there.
Stop it right there.
Stop it right there."
He said, "If you only knew how many people
that had been praying for you.
How many prayer groups she put together.
How many prayer cloths she gave me.
How many times she splashed me with holy water.