Baseball legend Hank Aaron delivered the commencement address at Marquette University in 2012, quoting the poet Langston Hughes to frame his central message about the power of dreams. Aaron, who broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record and finished his career with 755 home runs, knew firsthand what it meant to hold fast to an impossible dream. Growing up as a Black kid in Mobile, Alabama during segregation, Aaron's dream of playing major league baseball seemed impossibly out of reach. It was only when Jackie Robinson broke the color line that Aaron began to believe his dream might be possible. He told the graduates that dreams are the motivating force behind every great achievement, and losing them means losing the ability to soar.