The use of slang words are sometime prevalent. Language is also different within setting. At home there is a more relaxed method of communication than will be found in the workplace or in a mixed cultural environment. While phonetics or dialect is difficult to read and write, voice is clear and when set apart can be quite identifiable. Description can be easy or difficult to convey.
Physical attributes can be anything.
African-Americans run the full gambit of color schemes and features. They can be as patrician and angular as traditional heroes and heroines, but they can also be softly rounded. Color of skin is usually dark and often likened to food, such as coffee or honey. Coffee when mixed with cream ranges from black to blonde and this gives a huge variety of areas to draw upon. New words to describe color have cropped into the reading vocabulary were tanned used to be the only version of dark.