N-Word Privileges/Quotes

""Apparently some people were offended when I kind of called the new Pope a motherfucker yesterday! I am sorry I offended a few of you, but you have to understand that while I respect other people and their faith, but I'm not going be reverent towards an institution which I disagree with on a fundamental level. Also, I was Raised Catholic so I'm allowed to poke fun if I want to.""

- Jeph Jacques

"Jazz: "Naught's a naught, figger's a figger. All for the white man, and none for the nigger." Addie: Don't you use that word around here. Jazz: What word? Addie: You know what I mean."

- Regina

""Yeah, and that's another thing! I resent you people using [queer]! That's our word for making fun of you! We need it!""

- Homer Simpson

"Randal: Well, I still don't think "porch monkey" should be considered a racial term. I mean, I've always used it to describe lazy people, not lazy black people. I think if we really tried, we could reclaim "porch monkey" and save it. Dante: It can't be saved, Randal! The sole purpose for its creation, the only reason it exists in the first place, is to disparage an entire race! And even if it could be saved, you can't save it, because you're not black! Randal: Well, listen to you. Telling me I can't do something because of the color of my skin? You're the racist!"

- Clerks II

"Matthew: What are you going to do, send me to Military School? Would West Point take a cripple? Nora: DO NOT call yourself that! Matthew: If I said "physically challenged" or "disabled", would it make you feel any better? I'm just being honest!"

- One Life to Live

"Kevin Eubanks:So I got sold again. Jay Leno:I am so glad YOU made that joke instead of me!"

- The Jay Leno Show, on the NBC/Comcast deal.

""I'm Dr. Robotnik! I say what I want! I say penis, I say pussy, I say butt, I say crud and sludge, I say ni--]! ""

- Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Robotnik Says the N-Word

"Granddad: Y'all need to start appreciating your granddaddy. I went and spent your inheritance on this beautiful house in this neighborhood and all I ask you to do is act like you got some class! Riley: (to Huey) Hey...what's "class"? Huey: It means, "don't act like niggas." Granddad: S-s-s-see? That's what I'm talkin' about right there! We don't use the "n-word" in this house! Huey: Granddad, you said the word "nigga" 46 times yesterday. I counted! Granddad: Nigga, hush!"

- The Boondocks

"Principal: So...Riley used the n-word before you did, then? Teacher: He uses it every morning! He calls me nigga, he calls the other kids nigga, he calls himself nigga! All the time, 'nigga' this, 'nigga' that! NIGGA PLEASE! Bitch nigga, nigga have you lost your mind? Nigga, check that ho! Nigga you bullshitting, break yourself nigga! He says it so much I don't even notice it any more. Last week in lunch Riley says to a classmate, "Can a nigga borrow a french fry?" and my first thought wasn't "Oh my God, he said the word...the n-word...", no, it was "Now how is a nigga going to borrow a fry - nigga, is you gonna give it back?" I tell you, my inside voice never talked like this before he got in my class!"

- The Boondocks

""There is one time when a white person can say 'nigga'. If it's Christmas Eve, between 4:30 and 4:49 am, and you're in line at the toy store to buy the latest Transformers toy for your kid, and a black man hits you in the back of the head with a brick, beats your ass, Riverdances on you, takes your money, and then takes a piss on you and runs away, you can scream 'SOMEBODY CATCH THAT NIGGA!' Hell, if that happens, you can say 'nigga' for a whole month, but you better have the police report in your pocket in case someone wants to see your papers.""

- Chris Rock

"With all disrespect I don't really like you white motherfuckers, that's just where I'm at Screaming "All Lives Matter" Is a protest to my protest, what kind of shit is that? And that's one war you'll never win The power in the word "Nigga" is a different sin We shouldn't say it but we do, and that just what it is But that don't mean that you can say it just 'cause you got nigga friends Nigga, that word was originated for you to keep us under And when we use it, we know that's just how we greet each other And when you use it, we know there's a double meaning under"

- Joyner Lucas, rapping from the perspective of a black man, "I'm Not Racist"

""How about this new thing on the "N" word? Everybody's now against the "N" word. A good idea, though, right?""

- Larry King, December 1, 2006

""But, Jewish comics can kid Jews, Hispanic comics, Josh Lopez, kids Hispanics all the time. Gay comics kid the gay situation. It's OK, isn't it? But not OK when the non-N-person uses it.""

- Larry King, August 17, 2010

"You see Toofer, the African-American community has adopted that word for everyday use, in an attempt to rob it of it's meaning."

- Jack, Thirty Rock

"Mr Garrison:...and so you see, because I'm gay, I'm free to say the word "fag". Randy: Really? So we can't say "f[Bleep]"? Mr Garrison: No, see? You got beeped. Barfly: You mean you have to be a f[Bleep] to say "f[Bleep]"? Jimbo: Well that's not fair, I should be able to say "fag"! Randy: Hey Jimbo, you didn't get beeped. Jimbo: Uh oh!"

- South Park discussing a variant.

"And it's important that we all respect that if these people should happen to choose to reclaim the word as their own it doesn't mean the rest of you have a right to its use."

- Tim Minchin, "Prejudice" (talking about the word )