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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.