I am a 13 year old cacagun male in 7th grade in St. Augustine, FL. This should be required reading for all students in middle school and high school. I recently was denied my freedom of speech when told i couldn’t do a book report on this facinating title. I was told it might offened some people. i replyed that if the message of the book was fully understood, it would fail to offend people. I was still denied. Don’t let the title of this book stiffle the message. "…..when a man calls me a nigger, he is is calling me something i am not. The nigger exists only in his mind, therfore he’s the nigger. I feel sorry for such a man." -Gregory. Nigger is just a word that people give power, if we stop giving this word power, it won’t hurt anyone. Read this book.