Sentence examples for is a nigger from inspiring English sources
But a nigger is a nigger only if you can define him as such — and make him see himself as nothing but.
"This is a nigger of considerable talent," he remarks, but there's nothing in the way the line is spoken to suggest that anyone in the shop might be shocked.
A curious neighbor ambled down the block to see what all the noise was about, only to have a lookout point a cocked pistol at his chest and tell him that "there is a nigger living here with two white women, and we are going to bring him out, and hang him on the lamp post, and you stop and see the fun".
To hear these words — the language of subservience, of the supplicant — is to be in an old familiar Southern movie, a black strip of film illuminated by scenes of violence and subjugation: there can only be a master if there is a "nigger".
For if he does not buy back, he is a nigger, as ungrateful as all the others".
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In the book, Scout asks Atticus if he really is a "nigger-lover," as she's heard him called, and he responds, "I certainly am.
Jesus Christ was a nigger.
"Jackson Pollock was a nigger.
"Jimi Hendrix was a nigger," she screamed.
