In some ways, you've always been a creature of chaos. The complications of Act II, which will tip all you have been before into chaos, have been set up and abetted by really clever foreshadowing in Act I, by all those slippery you's over the years.
speech graduation self discovery
Colson Whitehead
Connecticut College Commencement 2017, 2017
Act III is everything. No matter the strength of the foundation, the assorted catastrophes of the Second Act, if we don't have Act III, we're really in trouble. Will the heroine pull it out in the end, or does she falter?
speech graduation resilience
Colson Whitehead
Connecticut College Commencement 2017, 2017
The universe may seem like a lonely place sometimes, but there are as many you's as there are stars in the sky. Maybe one of them will step up at the right time and tell you what to make of it all.
speech graduation self discovery
Colson Whitehead
Connecticut College Commencement 2017, 2017