# Quote — Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

> Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.

- Author: [Trevor Noah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah.md)
- Book: [Born a Crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime.md)
- Page: 267
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trevor_Noah#Born_a_Crime:_Stories_from_a_South_African_Childhood_(2016)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/growing-up-in-a-home

## More from this book

> As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/as-the-outsider.md)

> If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/if-youre-native.md)

> The end of apartheid was a gradual thing. Concessions were made here and there, some laws were repealed, others simply weren’t enforced.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/trevor-noah/born-a-crime/the-end-of-apartheid.md)