However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

With a common ground, solution of problems is easy.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.