President Obama Projects A Strong Offense, But

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

That's Just Like America. It's Made Up Of Lots Of Different People. We're All Different Colors, Different Ages, We Do Different Jobs -- But It Takes All Of Us Black People, White People, Brown People, Men And Women, Young And Old, Working In The Factories, Working In The Fields, Working In Offices, Working In Stores -- It Takes A Lot Of Different Kinds Of People To Get The Job Done For America.

We Must Face The No. 1 Critical Issue Of Our Day. It Is Youth Crime In General And Black-on-black Crime In Particular. There Is Nothing More Painful To Me At This Stage In My Life Than To Walk Down The Street And Hear Footsteps And Start Thinking About Robbery. Then Look Around And See Somebody White And Feel Relieved. After All We Have Been Through, Just To Think We Can't Walk Down Our Own Streets, How Humiliating.

A New Leadership. A Choice. A Chance. Don't Cry About What You Don't Have. Use What You Got.

If You Try You May Fail, If You Don't Try You're Guaranteed To Fail.