Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again. - Michelle Obama

There's an age-old maxim in the Black community: You've got to be twice as good to get half as far.

...the biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.

Barack believes in the greatness of America. He’s seen it in his own life’s journey. But he also knows that what’s holding us back is that our leaders have lost touch with the ideals that make this country great. Ideals like equality. Justice. Freedom from want and despair. And he believes that until we restore a sense of common destiny and shared purpose; until we understand that we are only as strong as the weakest among us; that there is more that binds us together than drives us apart; until we see ourselves in one another – until we truly care for all children; not just our own then we will continue to struggle with the problems that plague us.