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

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to …

- 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

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

- John H. Mcwhorter

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

- 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

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those t…

- 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-s…

- John H. Mcwhorter

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It fee…

- John H. Mcwhorter