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.
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.”
“I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.”