15 Quotes by John H. McWhorter

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

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

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

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

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