Meaning of nigger heaven | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place or a circumstance regarded by black people to be pleasant or enjoyable.
   US, derogatory, offensive, slang
2. The peanut gallery in a theater.
   historical, offensive

Examples

“It took close⟳ figuring to do anything but live⟳ that first year and yet we pushed our way with the crowd into the nigger heavens and saw⟳ most of the good shows. I had never been to the theatre before and I liked it.”

“The golden mean⟳ of the dark wayfarer's way between black Scylla and white Charybdis, I have⟳ traveled; subdued ifs in the way; from vile-canaille balconies and nigger heavens, seen day beasts and night beasts of prey in the disemboweling pits of Europe and America, in the death-worming bowels of Asia and Africa; and, although a Dumb Ox (like⟳ young Aquinas), I have⟳ not forgot the rainbows and the olive leaves against the orient sky.”

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