Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
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. McWhorterEnglish, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
John H. McWhorterI don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.
John H. McWhorter