it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider. - Trevor Noah

The world doesn’t love you. If the police get you, the police don’t love you. When I beat you, I’m trying to save you. When they beat you, they’re trying to kill you.

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 you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.” That

Fufi was the love of my life. Beautiful but stupid.