Allison

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“None of them had cars, either. There was no future in which most of these families would ever have cars. There was maybe one car for every thousand people, yet almost everyone had a driveway. It was almost like building the driveway was a way of willing the car to happen. The story of Soweto is the story of the driveways. It’s a hopeful place. —”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood