it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
John McWhorter
Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
Corey Hart
This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
Du Fu
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Michael Flanders
I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.
Bobby Sherman
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
John McWhorter
Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
Corey Hart
This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
Du Fu
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Michael Flanders
I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.
Bobby Sherman
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca