He calls them Words. Every person has them, as far as he knows. both the white and the black. the boy had found out that these words are what people think of each other, whether it be that the say it aloud or they think it. the white words are the good ones, the positive opinions a person has on someone. The black ones are the opposite, its the bad ones, the negative opinions a person has on someone else. He had also found out that each person has a unique pattern of how they carry their words. Every one had different patterns even he did, the only difference between him and them was that he only had black, no white in sight