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.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

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

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

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