Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (One World Essentials)

by Trevor Noah

that is what apartheid stole from us: time.

everyone looked like me, but we couldn’t have been more different.

Exactly me in michigan compared to illinois

it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.

People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world.

But the truth is that none of you were ever getting into that club.

So colored people thought that I thought I was better than them.

Literally what people thought about me in michigan

Being a man is not what you have, it’s who you are. Being more of a man doesn’t mean your woman has to be less than you.”

where someone plants the idea in your head and it changes your perception.

I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do,

The richer you are, the more choices you have.