If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

This is the big day across the country.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.