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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive wit and unflinching honesty, Noah weaves together a moving yet funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time.… (més)
Si bé literàriament no és un gran llibre (al menys en castellà), ens explica una història coneguda -l'apartheid, causes i conseqüències- des d'un punt de vista desconegut i original. He après, he comprès. Recomanable, des d'aquest punt de vista. ( )
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For my mother. My first fan. Thank you for making me a man.
Primeres paraules
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The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other.
Citacions
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Growing up the way I did, I learned how easy it is for white people to get comfortable with a system that awards them all the perks.
That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
The doctors took her up to the delivery room, cut open her belly, and reached in and pulled out a half-white, half-black child who violated any number of laws, statutes, and regulations—I was born a crime.
Sometimes we’d pull over and go up to the wall, and she’d put me on her shoulders like I was a little periscope.
I was just high-energy and knew what I wanted to do.
Catholic school is similar to apartheid in that it’s ruthlessly authoritarian, and its authority rests on a bunch of rules that don’t make any sense.
She taught me to challenge authority and question the system.
Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.
Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white...All you had to do was denounce your people, denounce your history, and leave your darker-skinned friends and family behind.
When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
I walked out. I didn’t call. I didn’t visit. Isaac came and I went, and for that life of me I could not understand why she wouldn’t do the same: leave. Just leave. Just fucking leave.
She shook her head. “Oh, baby. No, no, no. I can’t leave.” “Why not?” ” Because if I leave he’ll kill us.”
Darreres paraules
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive wit and unflinching honesty, Noah weaves together a moving yet funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time.
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