# Quote — Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

> In the hood, even if you're not a hardcore criminal, crime is in your life in some way or another. There are degrees of it. It's everyone from the mom buying some food that fell off the back of a truck to feed her family, all the way up to the gangs selling military-grade weapons and hardware. The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programs and summer jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate.

- 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: 209
- 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-the-hood

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 Concessions were made here and there, some laws were repealed, others simply weren’t enforced.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