my own little girlfriends back in the day. you look almost the same, stevie. well, aside from all that, stevie. yet you never you dealt with not only race, you never dealt with the fact that you had the handicaps to deal with. i mean, if anybody believed it was you, how did you get that faith? what gave you your mother and others i ve read went through things and you were able to rise and make it. what gave you that strength and that determination, stevie? i made dr. king s dream my own. before we even say that, god has always been the purpose for me knowing and believing that there s nothing in life bigger than life. god is bigger than life, and so
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ladies and gentlemen, the one and only stevie wonder. wow. stevie wonder, i mean, where do you start? you have done it all. i mean, if the dream was on two legs, it s in your body. you, from making dr. king s birthday holiday, you led the whole crusade, the fight against apartheid. you sit here now as one that can say you started as a little boy, you now can look back on the dream, where it s come from, and you are still the one that is the guiding light in entertainment and where we re going for the next 50 years. what does this moment of 50 years of dr. king s dream mean to you, out of all you ve done? and where do you see us going? well, i first have to commemorate you for your keeping the dream alive doing what you re doing.
dealing not only with the problem of race but class, inside of our race. and you still busted through. well, i appreciate that reverend i tell you, for me we talked about where we were coming from. i told my sister before this i was going to do this advancing the dream. and we talked about my great-grandfather, he was very old, laying in the bed. and i was visiting my grandmother in rural louisiana. and he either was born right at the emancipation proclamation, but we don t know but understanding that my parents grew up in rural louisiana and the jim crow pathology, and i remember watching mississippi burning with my mother and she
work believing you can do it. it has to be percentagesonal, and then the leaders of the institution need to be on board. lisa, you built up. it was not the skyscraper, how did you get men and women in your community to believe in your dream? well i was in my kitchen making beauty products selling them at craft fairs in my neighborhood. hiring young people to come and work with me at my house. so it is something that has always been a part of the community and a part of my family. i am still in the same house where i started cooking my products. and that attachment is always going to be there. and it is really about showing someone else, i don t have it all figured out. i m a constant work in progress. i m constantly learning and developing. because i went born a beauty executive. i used to work in television production. that has nothing to do with