Douglas Cosby

“One thoughtful Evangelical pastor said he approved of using the massacre for recruitment, as long as it was truly done for God. He bristled at "spiritual headhunters, just racking up another scalp. The Bible was never meant to be a club," he said. "If I'm using it as a weapon, that's really sad.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.”
― John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

“English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.”
― John McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”
― John H. McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English