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“In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“When it was time to pick my name, she chose Trevor, a name with no meaning whatsoever in South Africa, no precedent in my family It's not even a Biblical name. “It’s just a name,” he explains. “My mother wanted her child beholden to no fate. She wanted me to be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“Don't fight the system, mock the system”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“The first 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 freedom of money.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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