I never use the word nigger unless I'm discussing the word itself--for example in regards to news story about some idiot blasting it at a comedy club or after reading something by Twain. It isn't a word that should be used in common speech. Not by anyone. But it is still just a word, and there's nothing I hate more than hearing people say "the N-word" when discussing it. Grow some ****ing balls, cowards.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein