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

That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: you do not own the thing that you love.

We tell people to follow their dreams. But you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

The story of Soweto is the story of driveways. It’s a hopeful place.

Integration by its nature was a political act, but the get-togethers themselves weren’t political at all.