Born A Crime Quotes

In the book Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, his childhood is mostly described as growing up with his mom and with a dad that he would see once in a while. As read in the book Trevor’s mom Patricia was willing to raise Noah by herself but Trevor’s dad Robert was not keen on knowing that he had a child in the world without raising them. Trevor describes how after his dad found out about him they formed a kind of a family not a realistic one of course because of apartheid. Trevor gives us an insight that just having him was a 'proof of their criminality’(Noah 27). Unlike most people who could see their dad at any point in time Trevor “The only time I could be with my father was indoors” (Noah 27). This quote is introduced because when growing up he looked too dark around his father and too light to be around his mother, His parents knew that this is illegal it was rare that he was ever outside with his father. Growing up when it became time for Trevor to go to school he was stuck with the hard task of picking a group to hang out with the black or white, Trevor explained that “ at some point, you have to choose Black or White. Pick a side. You can try to hide from it.

You can say “oh, I don’t pick sides,” but at some point, life will force you to pick a side” This quote is also introduced because no matter how his family treated him and shelter him for the real world he knows he had to still pick which “group” he was going to be