What you write cannot compare to what you speak, which was portrayed by Gloria Naylor in "The Meaning of a Word." Words are truly meaningless, it is how one comprehends it, that is what matters. Words can bring someone down due to the context which they use it in. In this case "nigger." The word has been said before, especially in his family due to that they lived in the rural south after World War II. All his family gathered in one place on the weekends after all the hard work they put in during the week. Constant use of the word nigger was used in various forms of context during the time spent with family. However, there are rules limiting what people could say and how they used certain words. Whenever there was gossip to spill, older kids