Christian Z’s Reviews > Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood > Status Update

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”

“…if the person who doesn’t look like you speaks like you, your brain short-circuits because your racism program has none of those instructions in the code….the racism code says if he doesn’t look like me he isn’t like me, but the language code says if he speaks like me…is he like me?”

“In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.”