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Nationality: American Type: Cartoonist Born: September 28, 1909 Death: November 5, 1979 |
“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.”
“My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.”