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<p>There were several such instances in my life and my professional career, where
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I was not only the first African American, but the first African American woman,
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and a couple of occasions I was the first woman. There’s always, I think, a lot of
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pressure to perform, to be better than the best, because you realize—
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at least I always felt—that you are opening a door. You also are setting a record.
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You are setting a watermark. You are setting an expectation.
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I was the first African American woman to be appointed as an Assistant Surgeon
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General in the U.S. Public Health Service.
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And this is a service that is more than 200 years old. That’s quite significant.
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Again, opening the door, setting a precedent. That you have to
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perform, because you are then opening the doors for other people.
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And if you don’t, you can easily, just as easily, close that door.
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An M.D. degree really prepares you to do anything in the world that you want to do.
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It is so very basic. The understanding of the body, the mind, how it functions,
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growth and development, the stages of life. With me, it was that, plus the
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experience in the Public Health Service.
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I think that either one without the other would not have prepared me
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to be a college president.
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If you’re only thinking of yourself—what material and monetary things you can get,
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if the Mercedes and the fur coat and the big house is what’s keeping you going—
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you’re not going to make it. Not too long. You’ll have some immediate successes.
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But for the long term, for life, you really have to have goals that are
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bigger than you, family, that have to deal with society and making a
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contribution that’s bigger than yourself.</p>
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