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In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.