Talking Back, Talking Black Quotes

“Note: There is no such thing as someone who speaks your language with a perfect accent but whose sentences are full of grammatical mistakes. If the person has mastered the sounds, then it follows that before that, he had the sentence structures down. People learn a language’s parts in order of difficulty.”
― John McWhorter, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca