Rihanna closed her speech with this piece of wisdom from her late grandmother, Clara Brathwaite, whose battle with cancer inspired the creation of the Clara Lionel Foundation. The simplicity of the saying carried the weight of generational wisdom — the idea that generosity isn't about having excess to give away, but about sharing whatever you have, however little. By ending with her grandmother's words rather than her own, Rihanna reinforced the speech's central theme: that the impulse to help others is universal and doesn't belong to the rich and famous. It's a value passed down through families, from a grandmother in Barbados to a global stage at Harvard.