No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
John H. McWhorterI think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.
John H. McWhorterThe black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.
John H. McWhorterWe must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
John H. McWhorter