Quotes by : John McWhorter

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling....

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to....

The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened....

Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is....

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