"Mommy what does Nigger mean?"

Gloria Naylor´s essay "Mommy what does Nigger mean?" Explains indirectly the complex phenomenom known as language, and how language, in this case a simple word, can have certain meanings in ceratin contexts. The author emphasizes this quite well when she mentions, "... words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power." Although Gloria Naylor claims that she is not going to go deep on the studies of language, she realizes, and, of course by her essay the reader can also realize, that she has known the word before, but the way the word has been said has changed her life for ever.