"I slip into corners, and my long antennae pick up the catch-phrases strewn over the surface of things – nigger underwear smells of nigger – nigger teeth are white – nigger feet are big – the nigger's barrel chest – I slip into corners, I remain silent, I strive for anonymity, for invisibility.
"The nigger that invented them things, still working in the basement of McDonald's for regular wage, thinking of ways to make the fries taste better or some shit".
– Many of the soldiers are angry because they have been so long without pay, & they lay every thing to the nigger, he has caused the war, & now he is free, & government is helping them & the soldiers are mad, & they take every opportunity to insult & abuse the negroes".
"We had Wake Up Niggers, Niggers Are Scared of Revolution … Our thing was not to use that word as casually as the kids today.
In not being seen, one can also be called, and taken to mean, all sorts of things, including a "nigger".
Asked if he consults his wife about politics, he replies: "I have a nigger maid and I talk things over with her too".
(As one character tells Roosevelt, "You a Negro.... I'm a nigger. Negroes are the worst thing in God's creation. Niggers got style. Negroes got blindeyetis.... A Negro don't know he's a Negro. He thinks he's a white man. It's Negroes like you who hold us back").
"If a nigger call your house, the first thing you're going to think is he's trying to steal something," Jimmy said.
But, like fag and nigger, they don't mean the same thing when they go public — or viral.
Obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes and we want this, is a lot more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than nigger nigger.
