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?
John H. McWhorterThe only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
John H. McWhorterNo 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. McWhorterPeople 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.
John H. McWhorterBarack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.
John H. McWhorter