John H. McWhorter

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

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out…

— John H. McWhorter

Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and…

— John H. McWhorter

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope…

— John H. McWhorter

“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly,…

— John H. McWhorter

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly…

— John H. McWhorter

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

— John H. McWhorter

The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding…

— John H. McWhorter

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking…

— John H. McWhorter

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard…

— John H. McWhorter

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

— John H. McWhorter

“The war on drugs is what makes thugs.”

— John H. McWhorter

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

— John H. McWhorter

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

— John H. McWhorter