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If Twitter’s your thing, our handle is I’m Alice Winkler.Ġ0:02:53 OPRAH WINFREY: "Hattie Mae, this child is gifted," and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.Ġ0:02:58 ROGER BANNISTER: If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another chance.Ġ0:03:05 LAURYN HILL: It all was so clear. And on this episode, I’m very excited to say, we’ve got Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, so sit back, listen deeply, and spread the word. If you can move people through words to do things they might not otherwise be inclined to do, to deliver passion that they might not otherwise have, to get them to step up and want to do more, all of that, I believe, is motivated by the power of words.Ġ0:02:29 ALICE WINKLER: This is What It Takes, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
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I am still a lover of science fiction, and I’m the first one who went out and bought the most recent Harry Potter book.Ġ0:01:58 It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood, and it remains a way, through the power of words, to change the world. I tell kids all the time, “Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx.” I would run to the library whenever I could and needed a place to hide, and through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. They’re instruments that can take anyone to where they want to go. They gave me a lifelong love of two things, words and reading.Ġ0:01:23 Because words are so powerful. But their rhythm, the depth of my grandmother and father’s passion in reciting them. And I didn’t understand all the words because, at least at that age, I was still grappling with learning English, and my Spanish was a child’s Spanish, and these were grown-up poems. Who was most dramatic? Who could say it in a way that would engage people the most?Ġ0:00:49 And there'd be a lot of clapping and stamping of feet when they finished. And they would recite poems that were paragraphs long from memory, and it was always a sort of competition. While the grown-ups did their thing, the future Supreme Court justice and her cousin would hide out under the coffee table to avoid bedtime and to eavesdrop.Ġ0:00:20 SONIA SOTOMAYOR: And so I got to hear the conversations, to listen to the music, to listen to my grandmother and my father, somewhere in the middle of the night, get up to recite poetry. 00:00:00 ALICE WINKLER: When Sonia Sotomayor was little, really little, her grandmother would host a get-together pretty much every Saturday night at her tenement apartment in the South Bronx.