Communication Quote by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of…

— John McWhorter

“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic…

— bell hooks

“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence…

— Adam J. Banks

“Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?”

— Celeste Ng

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully.…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson

It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a…

— Toni Morrison

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and…

— Chance the Rapper

“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic grounds but…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be…

— John McWhorter

I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you…

— Angie Thomas

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud…

— Kanye West