Patricia
These women helped Patricia out by teaching her how to survive in downtown Johannesburg.
Who are the prostitutes?
Trevor Noah's racial designation.
What is "colored"?
The reason Noah could not play outside with his cousins in the street.
What are the flying squads?
Trevor Noah's Gran lived in this kind of house.
What is a "two-room" house?
How Trevor knows his "new" Adidas sneaker are not real Adidas.
What is an "extra stripe"?
This cosmopolitan neighborhood where Patricia and Robert lived was considered the "Greenwich Village of South Africa".
What is Hillbrow?
The reason Trevor is NOT beaten for performing surgery on his cousin's ear with matches and perforating her eardrum?
Why does Grandmother think if she hits white Trevor, his skin will turn "blue and green and yellow and red"?
These two things are what Trevor overheard going on during prayer meetings.
What is "sing and pray"?
People in Soweto often had these in their yards, even though they did not own, and never would own, cars.
What is a "driveway"?
What Trevor Noah will NOT order in a restaurant.
What are dog bones?
Patricia's ancestry or tribe.
What is "Xhosa"?
Trevor becomes a chameleon and realizes that this thing "defines who you are to people".
What is "language"?
What does Trevor do in the house that is mistaken for a demon?
What is "pooping on newspaper"?
These schools "teach no science, no history, no civics. They [teach] metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil".
What are the "Bantu schools?"
These are Trevor's most prized possessions as a little boy.
What are books?
She says this to young Trevor when he is very naughty.
What is "Sun'qhela"?
Which classes does Trevor Noah select and why?
What are the "B classes in with the Black students"?
The kids in Trevor' neighborhood believe that Trevor is _________?
What is white?
The age that Trevor Noah is when Patricia teaches him to drive on the long stretch of the road into town that is deserted.
What is "six"?
How does one think?
Trevor Noah explains: "So many [B]lack families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being [B]lack and poor, and it is a curse that follows you from generation to generation."
What is the "Black tax"?
This is why Patricia takes Trevor ice-skating, to the movies, to look at the fancy homes of the rich and privileged.
Why does Trevor believe that the world is his oyster? That his ideas and thoughts and decisions matter?
What is baloney and brown bread?
What is a used car?