書名：Born a crime
克萊爾學姐推薦指數：五顆心（強推）
本書的作者是他——Trevor Noah。
書裡的這些話能吸引你看這本書嗎？
1 My color didn’t change, but I could change your perception of my color.
2 Racism exists. People are getting hurt, and just because it’s not happening to you doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
3 You do realize the effect this will have on your future? You do understand what you’re giving up? This will impact the opportunities you’ll have open to you for the rest of your life.
4 Be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone.
5 What does the passage mean? What does it mean to you? How do you apply it to your life?
6 The bruises fade, and they fade for a reason—because now it’s time to get up to some shit again.
7 Women like to be noticed. Don’t just see me when you need something.
8 Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
9 A shit BMW is still a BMW.
10 The trick to looking rich, he told me, is to have one expensive item, and for the rest of the things you get basic, good-looking quality stuff.
11 People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.
12 People in America don’t understand, but when an American chain opens in a third-world country, people go crazy.
13 Working the angles, solving the puzzle, seeing what goes where, who needs what, whom we can connect with who can then get us the money.
14 Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.
15 We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don’t live with them.
16 If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
17 I saw the difference between prison and jail. I saw the difference between criminals and people who’ve committed crimes.
18 You can say that you don’t pick sides, but eventually life will force you to pick a side.
19 “What?” I said, tears streaming down my face.
“My child, you must look on the bright side.”
“What? What are you talking about, ‘the bright side’? Mom, you were shot in the face. There is no bright side.”
“Of course there is. Now you’re officially the best-looking person in the family.”
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