Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.