Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
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. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly, so rushed… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Barack 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… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
