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.

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

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

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

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.