○  英语演讲稿：Commencement Address at Wellesley College范文  ○

te fulghum, "and you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world." as that very wise young woman said, "diversity, like anything worth having, requires effort. effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity, and to accept unconditionally the same in others.

you should all be very proud that this is the wellesley spirit. now i know your first choice today was alice walker -- guess how i know! -- known for the color purple. instead you got me -- known for the color of my hair! alice walker's book has a special resonance here. at wellesley, each class is known by a special color. for four years the class of '90 has worn the color purple. today you meet on severance green to say goodbye to all of that, to begin a new and very personal journey, to search for your own true colors.

in the world that awaits you, beyond the shores of lake waban, no one can say what your true colors will be. but this i do know: you hav

e a first class education from a first class school. and so you need not, probably cannot, live a "paint-by-numbers" life. decisions are not irrevocable. choices do come back. and as you set off from wellesley, i hope that many of you will consider making three very special choices.

the first is to believe in something larger than yourself, to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time. i chose literacy because i honestly believe that if more people could read, write and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that plague our nation and our society.

and early on i made another choice which i hope you'll make as well. whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you're talking about life -- and life really must have joy. it's supposed to be fun!

one of the reasons i made the most important decision of my life, to marry george bush, is because he made me laugh. i

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