![]() Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.” Race mixing proves that races can mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. “In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn’t merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. ~Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, about identity, Chapter 1, But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense.” If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. “If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. They experienced racism, abuse, love, survival, and heritage in South Africa during apartheid. In Born A Crime, Trevor Noah gives a first-person perspective of his and his mother’s experience. The stories Noah tells are by turns hilarious, bizarre, tender, dark, and poignant - subsisting on caterpillars during months of extreme poverty, making comically pitiful attempts at teenage romance in a color-obsessed world, thrown into jail as the hapless fall guy for a crime he didn't commit, thrown by his mother from a speeding car driven by murderous gangsters, and more.I found the best Born A Crime quotes by hand with page numbers, chapters, and themes for easy reference. Hearing him directly, you're reminded of the gift inherent in telling one's story and having it heard of connecting with another, and seeing them as a human being. His chameleon-like ability to mimic accents and dialects, to shift effortlessly between languages including English, Xhosa, and Zulu, and to embody characters throughout his childhood - his mother, his gran, his schoolmates, first crushes and infatuations - brings each memory to life in vivid detail. With brutal honesty and piercing wit, he forgoes an ordinary reading and, instead, delivers something more intimate, sharing his story with the openness and candor of a close friend. I see you as a human being.'" (Trevor Noah)Īttuned to the power of language at a young age - as a means of acceptance and influence in a country divided, then subdivided, into groups at odds with one another - Noah's raw, personal journey becomes something extraordinary in audio: a true testament to the power of storytelling. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. ![]() If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. ![]() "Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. In this Audible Studios production, Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives. Trevor Noah, one of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars and host of The Daily Show, tells his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Winner: Audible's Best of 2016 - Celebrity Memoirs Highest-rated new book of 2016 by Audible customers
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