These two pieces center around the term "nigger", (which for the time being I am allowed to say). Both writers have specific occurrences where the word is used as a hurtful slur. Both were rather young at the time and both were affected in a profound way. it's hard to compare the two works, since Cullen's is a very brief, poetic account containing no background or reflection. Naylor reasons that the term has been transformed by her black peers to represent the uniqueness and complexity of the black people she knows. Naylor also seems less bothered, experiencing more confusion than anything. Both works, do show the poignant emotional effects that words, when meant to scar, can have.
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