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“But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard�� English? Ebonics had grown from the roots of African languages and modern English just as modern English had grown from Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots. Why is Ebonics broken English but English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin? The idea that Black languages outside Africa are broken is as culturally racist as the idea that languages inside Europe are fixed.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“From time to time, her dialogue will be rendered in ordinary English, which Louise does not speak. To do full justice to her speech would require a ladder of footnotes and glosses, a tic of apostrophes (aphaeresis, hyphaeresis, apocope), and a Louise-ese/English dictionary of phonetic spellings.”
― Fran Ross, Oreo

“If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

“Wy is Ebonics broken English by English is not broken German? Why is Ebonics a dialect of English if English is not a dialect of Latin?”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist