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Hridesh Raj
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We avoid talking about caste, hoping to somehow find a place in the world of upper-casteness that has been forbidden to us.
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“Nearly one million people lived in Soweto. Ninety-nine point nine percent of them were black—and then there was me. I was famous in my neighborhood just because of the color of my skin. I was so unique people would give directions using me as a landmark. “The house on Makhalima Street. At the corner you’ll see a light-skinned boy. Take a right there.” Whenever”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“People always lecture the poor: “Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!” But with what raw materials are the poor to make something of themselves? People”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. The”
― 1984
― 1984
“Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.”
― The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit
― The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit
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