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2019.
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If my mother had one goal. it was to free my mind. My mother spoke to me like an adult. She was always telling me stories, giving me lessons. Bible lessons especially. She was big into Psalms. I had to read Psalms every day. She would quiz me on it. " What does the passage mean? What does it mean to you? How do you apply it to your life?" "That was every day of my life. My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think.
2) Born a crime (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): stories from a South African childhood
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[2019]
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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed." --
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[2018].
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June, 2017. Comprised of hundreds of actual Trump tweets, the staff of The Daily Show opened The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library, a 4,000-square-foot museum space dedicated to the 45th president and his Twitter legacy. In the single weekend it was open to the public, the Library pop-up drew 7,500 visitors. Now the entire country can experience the Presidential Twitter Library, with screenshots of the tweets (from 2009 through 2017), accompanied...
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"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government...
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