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Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
— John McWhorter
fear no man but only God
— Tupac Shakur
The war on drugs is what makes thugs.
— John McWhorter
Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?
— Jeff Brown
Most of the languages that now exist are almost certain to become extinct within this century.
— John McWhorter
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
— John McWhorter
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
— John McWhorter
Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language,
— John McWhorter
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
— John McWhorter
In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.
— John McWhorter
If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.
— Lee Trevino
For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation's poetry.
— John McWhorter
People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.
— John McWhorter
Language overlaps with culture but is not subsumed by it
— John McWhorter
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— Bryan McWhorter
I am not 'African American' - I am black American.
— John McWhorter
We're all Dennis Hopper now.
— John McWhorter
the eight main "dialects" of Chinese are so vastly different that they are, under any analysis, separate languages. The
— John McWhorter
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
— John McWhorter
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
Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
— Lydia Lunch
Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine (found in over-the-counter cold and allergy medication) may inhibit lactation, as well.
— Brette McWhorter Sember
It wasn't enough. With that much damage, there was no way her blood would be effective quick enough. It would only delay the inevitable.
— Lindsay J. Pryor
A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.
— John McWhorter
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.
— John McWhorter
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
— John McWhorter
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
— John McWhorter