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will.i.am: “Pay It Forward”

24 August 2011

This video was produced by the U.S. Department of State in August 2011. The speaker is will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas.

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You know, all the stuff that I do ….
you know,

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when I step off the stage....

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I have a scholarship program, i

am scholarship,

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that I launched on Oprah two
years ago.

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I remember when I was just in
the projects

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in the ghetto where I'm from, in
East Los Angeles,

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I never thought that I would
travel.

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Just getting on a bus, driving
an hour away

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to go to school in Pacific
Palisades changed my life;

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just imagine what it'll do for a
kid

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to fly to a different country.

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If I could do my part and send a
kid to college in China,

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I would continue to pay it
forward.

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I'm just on a path of paying
forward.

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www.educationusa.state.gov

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[TEXT] Produced by the U.S.
Department of State