“The road ahead will not always be clear. There will be moments that test everything you think you know about yourself,” said Williams, who is from Laurel, Maryland. “And when that happens, remember this: The struggle is not a sign that you chose wrong. It is a sign that you chose something that matters. Here’s what we can’t lose sight of: We didn’t get here alone. We stand on the shoulders of people who prayed for the hope of us — family members who sacrificed, mentors who believed and generations who built a foundation so that we could build something greater than what we inherited. Now the future is watching us. It is waiting on us. So, I leave you with one charge: Live so that one day, the generation that inherits this world will say, ‘They understood the assignment.’”