"I just don't find Of Mice and Men appropriate for schools and how that impacts young black people, and young white people."
Angel Mbondiya is sitting GCSE exams, including English literature, at a school in Belfast.
One of the novels she has to study is Of Mice and Men, by Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck.
But as the book was written in 1937 and portrays life in the 1930s, it contains racial slurs including the N-word.
Angel told BBC News NI that because of this, she thinks the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) should replace it on the GCSE English literature course.
The central characters in Of Mice and Men are George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant ranch workers looking for work in 1930s California.
The novel also has a character called Crooks, who Steinbeck portrays as facing discrimination because he is black.
