John McWhorter

"We clap when our infants don't spill their food. We can afford to let go of clapping when exotic folks don't, when in our times, celebrating diversity is a shibboleth of moral legitimacy among thinking First World people, and considerably, if not comprehensibly, beyond."

"If your opinions never evolve, you’re either not paying attention or not genuinely interested."

"[T]here comes a point when a usage is so common that we must consider it not slovenliness but change."