Race Designation Is A Political Designation.

While I've Spent A Lot Of Quality Time With My Children, Perhaps It's Not Been Enough.

Humanitarian Appeals Always Help. They Penetrate Deeper Than Political Tradeoffs.

When I Was A Boy We Were Poor And We Had To Make Do With What We Had. So My Grandma Used To Make Us Quits That We Used For Blankets. She Couldn't Afford To Go To The Store And Buy A Blanket -- So She'd Take Scraps Of Cloth And Sew Them Together. There'd Be Different Colors And Different Patterns And Different Types Of Cloth -- But They All Went Together To Make That Big Quilt To Keep Us Warm.

For Me, Barack Obama's Election Was A Milestone Of The Most Extraordinary Kind. On The Day He Was Elected I Felt Such Hope In My Heart. I Thought We Were Seeing The Beginning Of A New Era Of Equal Opportunity Across Race And Gender Such As America Had Never Known Before.

When Everyone Is Included, Everyone Wins.