# Quote — Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

> In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race-mixing proves that races can mix - and in a lot of cases, want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.

- 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: 21
- 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/in-any-society

## 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 Concessions were made here and there, some laws were repealed, others simply weren’t enforced.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)