Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.