Our keynote speaker is about to come on, and I just wanted to say a few words about him, and you all know who he is.
Talib Kweli, please hold your applause to the end.
We are glad to come and hear you speak.
We love it.
Hey, Kweli doesn't like me to talk about this, but one time we were driving through the Mississippi Delta,
and there was a brother running up the side of the road, and he didn't have any shoes on.
He didn't have a shirt on.
And I started to drive right by this man.
Kweli.
And Kweli said, stop the car, because that brother might be in trouble.
And I stopped the car.
Kweli said to the man, he said, brother, are you okay?
Do you need a ride somewhere?
And the man looked at Kweli and said, shh, I'm escaping.
And Kweli took him by the hand and said, my brother, you didn't get me.
We have been free for some time now.
Well, I'm wiping it up.
Please welcome a good friend, a scholar, ghetto philosopher, three-time Nobel Peace Prize winner,
first black man to pilot an aircraft.
The next mate of the Nike swoosh.
The man that made Kool-Aid say, oh, yeah.
Brooklyn's own.
Tally-up.
Kweli.