"People love to say, "Requite a homo a fish, and he'll eat for a mean solar day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll consume for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, whatsoever choice that I've fabricated. Just I'grand consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend then much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. Simply regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an respond. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if…" "If simply…" "I wonder what would have…" You will never, never know, and it will haunt yous for the residue of your days." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Nelson Mandela once said, 'If yous talk to a human in a linguistic communication he understands, that goes to his head. If yous talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was and then right. When you brand the effort to speak someone else's linguistic communication, even if it's only basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I sympathise that yous have a culture and identity that exists across me. I see you as a homo existence" ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"If you're Native American and yous pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you lot're African and y'all pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that'due south just common sense." ― Trevor Noah, Built-in a Crime: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"We spend so much time being afraid of failure, agape of rejection. But regret is the matter we should fright most. Failure is an reply. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the reply to." ― Trevor Noah, Built-in a Criminal offence: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"The starting time thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don't want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the liberty of money." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"I was blessed with another trait I inherited from my mother, her ability to forget the hurting in life. I remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don't agree onto the trauma. I never let the memory of something painful prevent me from trying something new. If you think too much about the ass kicking your mom gave you or the ass kicking that life gave y'all, you'll finish pushing the boundaries and breaking the rules. It's better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and motion on. You'll have a few bruises and they'll remind you of what happened and that's ok. But after a while, the bruises fade and they fade for a reason. Because now, it'southward time to get up to some shit again." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Trevor, recall a man is non determined by how much he earns. Yous can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a human is not what y'all take, it'due south who you are. Being more than of a homo doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you." ― Trevor Noah, Built-in a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
"Acquire from your past and exist ameliorate because of your past," she would say, "but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen yous, but don't concord on to it. Don't be biting." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"Nosotros live in a globe where we don't run across the ramifications of what we do to others considering nosotros don't alive with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to alive with the people he was ripping off. If nosotros could see one another's pain and empathise with one some other, it would never be worth information technology to u.s. to commit the crimes in the first identify." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Law-breaking: Stories From a South African Childhood
"The name Hitler does not offend a blackness South African because Hitler is not the worst affair a black Southward African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the well-nigh important, and that'due south particularly true in the W. But if black South Africans could go back in fourth dimension and impale ane person, Cecil Rhodes would come up upwardly before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in fourth dimension and kill i person, Belgium's King Leopold would come up way earlier Hitler. If Native Americans could get back in time and kill one person, it would probably exist Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I" ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a S African Babyhood
"The hood fabricated me realise that crime succeeds because criminal offense does the one thing the government doesn't practice: crime cares. Offense is grassroots. Law-breaking looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Criminal offense offers internship programmes and part-fourth dimension jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Law-breaking doesn't discriminate." ― Trevor Noah, Built-in a Crime and Other Stories
"People idea my mom was crazy. Ice rinks and drive-ins and suburbs, these things were izinto zabelungu -- the things of white people. And then many people had internalized the logic of apartheid and made it their ain. Why teach a blackness child white things? Neighbors and relatives used to pester my mom: 'Why practise this? Why show him the world when he's never going to leave the ghetto?'
'Because,' she would say, 'fifty-fifty if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I attain, I've done enough." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a Southward African Childhood
"Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. For a long time I wondered why he ever married a adult female like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. If he wanted a adult female to bow to him, in that location were plenty of girls back in Tzaneen being raised solely for that purpose. The way my mother ever explained it, the traditional man wants a adult female to be subservient, just he never falls in dearest with subservient women. He'southward attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is complimentary because his dream is to put her in a cage." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Criminal offence: Stories From a Southward African Childhood
"But the real world doesn't go abroad. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just considering information technology'south not happening to you lot, doesn't mean information technology's not happening. And at some point you have to cull; blackness or white, pick a side. You tin endeavour to hide from it. You tin say, oh I don't have sides, but at some point, life volition force you to pick a side." ― Trevor Noah, Built-in a Crime: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you tin love a person you detest, or detest a person you love. It's a strange feeling. Y'all desire to live in a world where someone is expert or bad, where y'all either love or detest them, just that's not how people are." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Criminal offence: Stories From a South African Childhood
"In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn't merely challenge the organization every bit unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race mixing proves that races tin mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. Considering a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the arrangement, race mixing becomes a criminal offense worse than treason." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Offense: Stories From a Due south African Childhood
"I became a chameleon. My color didn't modify, but I could change your perception of my color. If you spoke Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look similar you, but if I spoke like you, I was yous." ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Babyhood
"When yous shit, as you start sit downwards, you're not fully in the experience withal. Yous are non nonetheless a shitting person. Yous're transitioning from a person well-nigh to shit to a person who is shitting. You don't whip out your smartphone or a paper correct away. It takes a infinitesimal to go the kickoff shit out of the way and get in the zone and get comfy. Once y'all reach that moment, that'due south when it gets really overnice. It'south a powerful experience, shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I remember God made humans shit in the way nosotros practise because it brings us back down to world and gives us humility. I don't care who y'all are, we all shit the same. Beyoncé shits. The pope shits. The Queen of England shits. When we shit we forget our airs and our graces, we forget how famous or how rich nosotros are. All of that goes away. You" ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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