I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.