Brittany

“He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. “Africa is full of black people,” he would say. “So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?” To him it was insane.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“When I look back I realize she raised me like a white kid—not white culturally, but in the sense of believing that the world was my oyster, that I should speak up for myself, that my ideas and thoughts and decisions mattered.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“In Germany, no child finishes high school without learning about the Holocaust. Not just the facts of it but the how and the why and the gravity of it—what it means. As a result, Germans grow up appropriately aware and apologetic. British schools treat colonialism the same way, to an extent. Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. “Well, that was shameful, now wasn’t it?”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood