That's what we fighting for 2019
We fighting forward am I in a dream and then how much of my inner journey now?
You would think that I'm in a dream. I'm not in the dream. I'm not there
I mean I told you I just
Accept it the mothers Dakini
Responsibility a few years about just accepted it and you know how when you first accept something you accept it
But you're not like really walking walking walking in it. I'm walking in it now
I got a call from the president of tens, Tennessee State University like E. We're trying to do something
I need your own campus. We need you to take over the university
I'm like, let's go
Cuz I did it at Michigan State since 2003, but I wasn't celebrate I was tolerated
Did it since 2003 to university president University? She not been in one event
Was she not there no more, but when she was there, she was never she never came
The provost didn't come the deans. Nobody came president called me
Like II that program you do we want that program here and watch this they were they were talking to me about they budget before
I could even talk to them about what I wanted
Said we got seven thousand seven hundred kids. We need over eight thousand. We want your own campus
we need you to teach a leadership course I
Said oh the Martha came boy bought that oh you bought to give me a whole campus
For the little babies, I'm about to take them to a whole nother level
Tennessee State University
It will compete with Morehouse when I get there. It will compete with Howard when I get there
We about to take a whole I got I have resources. I got the president like this
I stepped a little bit in my dream. He was like, yep. I see you serious
So now I'm gonna give you a whole University son. And when I finish I'm gonna give you a whole city
And then be careful son cuz I might want you to run
No, you think I'm you think I'm playing you think I'm playing I ain't playing I didn't ask to do this
But he said the more you walk into it the more I'm gonna be able to and a lot of y'all scared
Just walking to it
Stop running from it because your life ain't sweet what since you've been running anything like your life sweet from running
So I need you just embrace her write it down real quick. Write it down. Give me the number 1 to 10
Give me the number. I must be brave. Like if you don't mind my Mara here with the hat back
What number did you put down?
1 yeah, no problem. No problem. See I need help see after this is over
Hold me accountable. I
Need to do at least I need to do a call. I don't know see her work it out
But if y'all got if you put it when I got to help you I can't let you say 1 and then I don't do
Nothing for you. How many y'all 5 and under you're like from a 1 to 5 you wrote down in terms of the dream?
Okay, we got to help y'all hands down. We got to help we got to help you. Alright, that's a lot of y'all
Alright a lot of y'all don't know what your purpose or your path. We got to help you
alright
So we got to find some way see I don't know you think about it for the next
30 minutes and then when we finish you talk to me, alright
You guys don't see the brain you feel you're hurting for the pocket. I'm the brain-eating mouth
So I'm spitting it out and he'd better think a whole bunch over there for the next 30 minutes and come up with a sweet
Plan, but we can't send you out 1 2 5
We can't send you out like that. We got it
We have to equip you and empower you to help you to get from that one to that 5 is that Alright?
Good how many you want help? I'm sorry. I'm making an assumption how many you want help? Let me see your hands good
Alright hands down. Good. Let's go to the next one son. Let's go
Oh
So we don't know we didn't know who this was
Can I be real y'all know how old he was when he started?
62 60 to
62 years old
He waited and he was 62 to walk in the dream. And now we know him my kids kids gonna know who this is
I don't even eat a KFC but they everywhere
And I don't eat at KFC not cuz I'm no help dude
I said I'm just getting older and I know it ain't right, but I promise you I would hit the Twitter
I got a special relationship with KFC
We were kids my mom would take us to Chicago every week every week for about seven years and we stopped in Gary
Indiana to my grandfather Jesse McWilliams house
And we stopped at my grandfather's house. He would take us to KFC and get us a bucket of chicken
So I don't even know if I really loved the chicken as much as I loved my grandfather and I loved the experience
So when I see KFC, I don't see chicken. I see my grandfather who's no longer alive
And I remember when we were sitting his table and we would murder the KFC and he was look different
You know mom named beyond only two pieces
Don't you hate parents like that?
That's like two pieces
What is that gonna do for it at nine year old grant boot like grant get a couple buckets going. He'll help yourself
He was like fella, you know good help yourself with the mashed potatoes
I didn't like mashed potatoes
But he had them on and so I ate the management and the biscuits I'm killing them with, honey
Anybody else do the honey with the biscuits? What about served? I got my wife's on that certificate out serve
Right. So look 62 years old some of you in this room
If you ain't careful, you will not it won't happen to you until you 62 you keep
Every year you I
know how many y'all are like a 7 to 10 and you but you still ain't
Fully committed. Let me see your hand real quick. You know him. Come on. Come on, raise your hand
You know what you're supposed to be doing and you constantly you from Chicago and they double-dutch the girls. That was the, sweetest
I promise you you knew who was the sweetest because once they started turning if they wasn't sweet they was like
If they were sweet there was like my
I'm my home. She's sweet. She's sweet with it. So y'all got do me a favor some of y'all just oh, he's just um, I
Need you to write a date down it you gonna fully commit right now write the date down that you're gonna fully commit
So what you know you could be doing right right now. I need a date. I need a date
Come on, write it down. Write it down
I need you to commit I'm a count to three and you're gonna say out loud with that the date you wrote down
Look, I didn't tell you you needed these resource. You need to be sweet
I say that I said to you just give me a date. That's all I need
My man from Tennessee state was like et
When you ready I was like, all right, August
29th he said August
We was thinking January 16th
When the students come back I was like, all right
I just wonder I just like this whole of the year slot. Let me come in fresh. I
Was at the reason why I told you to write it down because you might have a date and it create him
I have a different date
But Leslie's start with your date my date was August 22 2019. I'm geek like yo, see we bout takeovers joint
It's gonna be just like it was me. You work are gonna go down everyone start the event
We don't get to present table and blow this thing out the ward 20. My man called me back like RIT
We working on the budget right now
29 January 16. What day can you come earlier than that dough? So we can sit down with all the parties and meet I
Said you want me to start on the 16th, and you want to meet before 2:16. It's already December 16
He later. When would you think I was like? Oh, yes. He's like, oh no, no, no
No, no too many lives would be lost by that time
We got too many students already struggling he we need you right now
Somebody hear what I'm saying, please you are needed right now
You are needed right now. So on three just call the date out for me. One two three
Good. I like it 1 2 3
Good good, and I need you to stand up and let's do it
We're gonna stand up and I just want it all out put it all out like do something to say however you go all in
Like if you like all in if you like, I don't know what you do
But on three I want you to go all in one two three
Good one two three
Good. I am I am one two three
Yeah, one two three
Come on, one two three
Yep, one two three
Come on, one two three
Come on we bout to put this with it. I am therefore it is one two three
Good one two three
Please please listen, please. Listen, please. Listen, there are no barriers. There are no barriers that are holding you up
You'd only want holding you up. There is no resources holding you up. You'd only want holding you up
There is no other human that you have to wait on you holding you up
There's not a better opportunity than now you are holding you up
For those of you who are transparent and brave enough put your hand on your heart and
When I count to three only for those that this resist this applies to you this applies to you if you if you know
It's AE. It's gonna be hard for me to do that but it's the truth
So I'm gonna do it when I count to three. I want you to say I'm holding me up
Call for those of you who know, you know, you know that you are making excuses that you blaming other people
That you are afraid that you walk in fear you walk in guilt something that happened you had an abortion five years ago
You still own that ten years ago you had an abortion. You still own that?
You got caught you went to jail. You have a felony. You still Nats. I
Want to free you?
That was five years ago. Why are you still walking in X that was ten years ago
You got a divorce that you your mom went to the graves and she was not proud of you
She would be proud not walk in it
Your past is the past
And there's nothing you can do about it
I am ashamed that some of the stuff I did to
My mom ashamed is some of the stuff I did in school a shame, but it's over
You can't hold that against me and
I will not hold it against myself. I'm free
I'm free. And whom the Sun has set free
He's free indeed
She is free indeed. You've been holding your blessings up because of your past you feel bad about it
You were wrong when you did it, but it's over
cleanse yourself
Cleanse yourself. You've already been forgiven acceptance and now let's walk in it
The dream is yours, but you're saying I'm not worthy of the dream. You're probably not but just been given to you anyway
I'm not smart enough. You're probably not but it doesn't matter it was it was given to you and is now your responsibility
To do something with it
You've been giving it. It's the gift that you never opened. It's the gift. It's yours
So I need you to forgive yourself something. That's not for everybody. For those of you who are could forgive me
Just give me five minutes. I'm coming back to you and I'm talking to a specific group of people right now
Who walk in shame?
I'm talking to a specific group of people right now
Who do not walk in their bonus because of something that happened and they haven't been able to let it go
I'm asking you to forgive yourself on three. I need you to say I am forgiving one two three
Now you can do better than one two three
Yeah, and I you now you saying it like you mean it one two three?
Therefore I have forgive me I
am forgiven
Therefore so we're not gonna walk in that no more. We're not gonna talk about that like that no more
We're not gonna live in that space anymore because it's time it's time when you walk out this door
There are millions and millions of people on this earth, and we're all in the room together and there is an anointing in this room
As a freedom in Apollo freedom
When you walk out of here you'll never be in bondage again, look I know you're scared
But when you walk out of here, he ain't gonna do nothing to you. You're good. I know you're scared
You like eat you don't understand
You are you looking at you looking at the 48 euro, you're not looking at the Eden
When I was ready to make a change I was still connected to the streets and it ain't that easy
To just go to church and go to college
They don't always let you go when you're in the streets and they've taken care you and always give you a pass
And always say yeah II go go live that life, but I'm trying to tell you that you free
My boy little be called me and said yo e you need to talk to you I say, what's up?
I thought he was gonna congratulate me for a fight we got into him. He said yo eat
Said you not like us got a comment on your life and it's plain to see II you don't owe the streets nothing
Oh, yeah, we gonna miss you boy we go get out of Detroit go
Got something special all your life cold it make us proud when you go
You know, love you when we got you back
Somebody here you've been in politics long enough you freed, I'm free
Free
Free your past is no longer your past
Matter of fact you might need it. You don't I'm card. You spank no more
Don't call em cooler beam Award
You're gonna leave here today with your new name and your new identity
Gonna embrace your dream. There's one more time. I'm forgiving 1 2 3
You got 1 2 3
Come on come on, come on 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3