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00:10 - We're in Baltimore City.
00:12 - They coming home to no lights,
00:13 not having food in the refrigerator,
00:15 not having a refrigerator at all.
00:17 But when they come to step practice,
00:18 all of those things are erased out of their mind.
00:21 So they can make it through life.
00:22 ♪ ♪ ♪
00:24 - You up there screaming and yelling and you just stepping.
00:27 - We making music with our bodies.
00:30 - My mother is annoying.
00:33 ♪ ♪ ♪
00:35 And I just be like, "Mom, you gotta chill sometimes."
00:38 - I'm kind of an introvert.
00:39 I'm just everything that step is not.
00:41 I'm not very dramatic,
00:43 but all those parts come out of me when I step.
00:45 ♪ ♪ ♪
00:48 - My mission is to make sure each and every one of you
00:52 graduates from college.
00:54 - Are these grade your best?
00:56 - Why does the step team get your best and I don't?
00:58 - I'm trying.
00:59 - School is what got me out of Brooklyn.
01:01 College is what's gonna get you out of Baltimore.
01:03 [cheers and applause]
01:04 - Hands up!
01:05 - Don't shoot!
01:06 [gunshot]
01:07 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:08 - A lot of our children are lost.
01:10 They have no one.
01:12 I feel it was my obligation to help them.
01:14 - I'm willing to work because this is not it for me.
01:17 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:19 - It's not the first time I've always been out.
01:21 I don't want to have to live like this.
01:23 - So I'm gonna work my hardest
01:24 to make it not happen in my life.
01:25 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:27 - I have, like, two people inside of me
01:29 that I struggle with every day.
01:30 One is unstoppable, that can do anything,
01:33 and the other is, she feels lost and stuck.
01:36 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:37 - If we don't come together,
01:38 this girl is not gonna make it.
01:40 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:44 - This is way bigger than stepping.
01:47 It's about not making excuses.
01:49 ♪ ♪ ♪
01:51 Making sacrifices.
01:54 Having a positive attitude.
01:55 ♪ ♪ ♪
02:01 - That taught me, if you come together
02:03 with a group of powerful women, the impact will be immense.
02:07 ♪ ♪ ♪
02:14 - We stand here today on the precipice of the future.
02:16 ♪ ♪ ♪
02:18 - Go, ladies!
02:19 ♪ ♪ ♪
02:25 - Step is life.
02:26 [cheers and applause]
02:29 [cheers and applause continue]
02:32 [silence]
02:35 [silence]
02:38 [SILENCE]