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… - Trevor Noah

It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited. The highest rung of what's possible is far beyond the world you can see. My mother showed me what was possible. The thing that always amazed me about her life is that one showed her. No one showed her. She did on her own. She found her way through sheer force of will.

That’s how a police state works — everyone thinks everyone else is the police.