"deah thank you for coming it's it's a real honor to have you here great thank you for having me I'm thrilled to be here I've been trying to get to Stanford for a long time so we've been waiting and co..."

"she did no more no more drama if any of you all know that by the end of the song she was on the floor so uh it was it was really quite something so you know there are so many of my uh so many parts of..."

"the fact that now in my role at bet networks I get to pay tribute to people like that and you know I know Smokey Robinson personally I mean it just it's even saying that just gives me uh chills so um ..."

"the so not at all I'm thrilled to be here with you and you I'm sure you've done your homework much more than than those people we'll we'll find out um that that award was recognition of your work uh a..."

"growing up and my leadership ability um the Greensboro was very segregated when I moved there um I went to all black junior high school and I went to an all black uh high school and um you may remembe..."

"community and one thing it showed me that you could be anything you wanted to be we had teachers who cared about us who really pushed us who made sure that we had the basic skills that we needed um an..."

"go from an all black public high school to Brown University in Providence Rhode Island and that was an amazing step uh for me uh but I felt uh very confident in doing that and um to answer your questi..."

"this company and the fact that uh it provided Black Entertainment and the fact that we still didn't see enough images of ourselves on TV I mean I grew up in the three Network days where it was just ab..."

"exciting for me um so now I as I think about it in retrospect I see there's a direct relationship between how I grew up and why I'm so passionate about bet and what we do and why I've been able to sta..."

"Cara right he just got an evil look um who happens to be my cousin I've known her for a long time absolutely um how did you think about that that decision well it was a tough decision um I'll back up ..."

"know obviously some people think I would have um so I went to Harvard you know again um against my my wishes but it was the best law school I got into and so I went and um and I didn't mention but I h..."

"bet but what was the question again I'm sorry I got so involved my life think the answer was more interesting than the question I know it was it was looking at that transition so making the jump from ..."

"wasn't sure I wanted to live in New York and luckily bet was a small client and um um the founder asked me to come and start the legal department so I went from a 200 person law firm uh called stepto ..."

"before in life because um at the time bet was not on we didn't have cable in DC I actually worked on the cable franchise so no one in DC knew you know no no one in in most of major cities because majo..."

"minute but then once I got to bet and he started sending me he would clip out articles it was before your time before before the email and internet and Twitter would you if you got a newspaper article..."

"stepping off of The Fast trck and doing something that I wanted to do because I wanted to do it as opposed to building continuing to build my resume I clerked because the clerkship fell in my lap I di..."

"and coming back to something you said ear you alluded to the importance of media in educating viewers about other groups of people people with different religions different sexualities potentially and..."

"that was about the time other cable networks were getting into more original programming um and we actually um um my leadership team and I kind of sat down for 18 months and said what what do we want ..."

"and you'll be happy to know in heaven there's lots of chocolate and it's a really nice conference room and um so but hell was was hard to take and Hell consisted of us interviewing our employees inter..."

"was in the midst of what we were going through and and it took a lot to get us to to heaven and heaven was really a place where we could do the kind of original programming we wanted to he took our al..."

"recent incident with a show we have called the quad and the quad is about a HBCU campus and it's a scripted show it's fiction um and it's about um a female president of a university and uh she's she's..."

"gives us a little bit of leeway you know I never said we want it to be the black PBS that's not what we were trying to be we want to be a network and treat it like ABC who does Scandal but no one says..."

"increasing our audience I mean I don't know how many of you saw we did this miniseries not too long ago on New Edition and we got 29 million viewers so that wasn't all black viewers that was a mix of ..."

"for me as a person uh because as a lawyer you can stay in a room and research and write and do all the things you have to do uh alone for a long time you know and probably only time you have to talk t..."

"it's it's Rosa Parks so I I remember trying to make that decision and I remember I was in the back of a car going to the airport and I was like well Deborah what do you think you know and I don't know..."

"your question about what people think of the network I remember once we as we tried to deal with this issue of videos the good news is we don't have any videos on the air anymore uh mainly because you..."

"on my platform and speaking of 70 audience F final question from from me before we move to to a Q&A um and it's it's the big question deorah okay the big one it's the big one uh talk us through Presid..."