you are theologians, nurses, sociologists. Some of you have money.
Some of you have patients, some of you have kindness.
Some of you have love. Some of you have the gift of long suffering.
Whatever it is, whatever your gift is, what are you going to do with what
you have? All right. Now, here's my last point about failure. The times
it's the best way to figure out where you're going. Your life will never be
a straight path. I began at Fordham university as a premed student.
I took a course called the cardiac morphogenesis. I couldn't read it. I
couldn't say it. I sure couldn't pass it. So then I decided to go into pre
law than journalism and with no academic focus, my grades took off in
their own direction. I was a 1.8 GPA and the university very politely
suggested that it might be better to take some time off.
I was 20 years old. I was at my lowest point, and then one day, and I
remember the exact day, March 27th, 1975 I was helping my mother in a
beauty shop. My mother owned the beauty shop up in Mount Vernon,
and there's, there was this older woman who was considered one of the .
Elders in the town, and I didn't know a personally, but I was looking in
the mirror and every time I looked through the mirror, I could see her
behind me and she was staring at it.
She just kept looking at me. Every time I looked at it, she kept giving me
these strange looks. So she finally took the dry off her head and sets to
some, she said something I'll never forget. She said, young boy, I have a
prophecy, a spiritual prophecy. She said, you are going to travel the
world. And speak to millions of people and in the years that followed,
just as that woman prophesies, I have traveled the world and I have
spoken to millions of people through my movements.