Since Trevor Noah makes his living talking to people, and is known for his facility with languages and accents, don't miss a chance to hear his audio narration of his memoir. I laughed, I cried, I looked up the history of South Africa, I realized how little I know of history from non-Western perspectives, I gained much food for thought about race relations, I played parts out loud to whoever would listen, and I wish I could meet his mother. 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "People thought my mom was crazy. Ice rinks and drive-ins and suburbs, these things were izinto zabelungu -- the things of white people. So many people had internalized the logic of apartheid and made it their own. Why teach a black child white things? Neighbors and relatives used to pester my mom: 'Why do this? Why show him the world when he's never going to leave the ghetto?' 
 'Because,' she would say, 'even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish, I've done enough." 
 "The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling." 
 "I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only..." "I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days." 
 "The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that's especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium's King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson." 
 "Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet--tweets, Facebook posts, lists--you've read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you've read no books in a year. When I look back on it, that's what hustling was. It's maximal effort put into minimal gain. It's a hamster wheel."