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" For centuries colored people were told: Blacks are monkeys. Don't swing from the trees like them. Learn to walk upright like the white man. Then all of a sudden it's Planet of the Apes, and the monkeys have taken over."

chapter 9 this is basically saying what how black people are treated

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"The colored kids shit on me all the time foe being too black. So I wasn't welcome there." (Noah 135) Even those who are the same race as you will reject because of there stupid standards on how they see you as race or just stupid stereotypes.

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"Lorenzo was everything I wasn't He was popular.He was popular.  He was white. He'd upset the balance of everything by asking out the only colored girl in school.girls loved him,  and he was dumb as rocks. a nice guy, but kind of a bad boy. (Noah 133)  

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"Lorenzo was everything I wasn't He was popular.He was popular.  He was white. He'd upset the balance of everything by asking out the only colored girl in school.girls loved him,  and he was dumb as rocks. a nice guy, but kind of a bad boy. (Noah 133)  This shows identity he can't identify with him. we very know is Noah wont's to be like him. or maybe he is happy just being himself.

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"You're almost there you're so close. you're this close to being white. pity your grandfather couldn't   keep his hands off the chocolate, eh? But it's not your fault you're colored, so keep trying. (Noah 18) this quote tokes about how you are so close to being white all you have to do is not touch the chocolate.

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"Colored people are a hybrid a complete mix some are light some are dark and some have Asian features". (Chapter 9) this quote tells that many different colored people do not have the same skin tone and many of them have different shades of skin. Sa'Mya

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" Maylene was also the only colored girl in school"( Noah 130 ) This quote shows that the other girls wanted them to be valentine, because they were the only kids with color in the whole school.

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"The white neighborhoods of Johannesburg were on white fear-fear of black crime, fear of black uprising reprisals- and as results virtually every house sits behind a six-foot wall,and on top of that wall is electric wire "( Noah 150). Violence, but more specifically the fear of it, kept people away for each other. In the end, Violence was the things that kept Trevor from meetings friends. People had a very general belief that violence came from black people. This caused for many of them to be prejudged.

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"Most colored parents don't speak African languages they speak African".

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"I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast" (Noah 141). This quote shows identity because he is describing how he is portrayed by his peers, and how he knew hisself he wasn't the most out there guy but he still knew where he stood in the social rankings.

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“A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part II: The Crush” (chapter 12) i say its identity because it say some about education affairs with the heart.

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"Looking in that boy's eyes, I realized how much he and I had on common. He was a kid. I was a kid. He was crying. I was crying ." (Noah 125) Trevor realizes that revenge isn't as much as he thought it would be.

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"Get the f*ck out of here! Go away, you stupid Bushie. Bushman!" Page 87
This connects to race because Trevor was seen as an outsider to the group of boys since he was a mixed boy making himself a target for bullies.

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"I became notorious for being that guy, so much so that people started coming up to me in line. Hey, can you buy this for me?" Page 99-100
This connects to identity because this displays how in Trevor's school community he was seen as the fastest boy to get food in the whole school which made people recognize and try to use him or help him.

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¨ yes, I got my revenge to No, no,no. Too much. oh shit. oh shit. oh shit. Dear God,  what have I done.¨(Noah 125) in this quote it shows that he got his revenge on the boy and beat the mess out of .

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" You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're to share. For me it was humor." ( Noah 141 ) This is language because he is expressing himself through his sensibility and humor.

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¨You´re so close. You´re this close to being white. Pity your grandfather couldn´t keep his hands off the chocolate, eh?¨ (Noah PDF 85) Its crazy because race wasn´t just based off skin tone but it was based off how you act too. If you talked a certain way or had certain things you could be considered a different race.

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"I wasn't the hot guy in class. I wasn't even the cute guy in class. I was ugly" (Noah 145). This describes identity because he is identifying himself as not being so attractive to girls and being ugly.

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"'You're the only two. It's your responsibility' " (Noah 130). This describes racism because the other kids in his class are saying that Noah and Maylene have to "mate" because they are the only ones that are the so called same.

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"Trevor, i don't know if you know this, Mr. Friedman said, but Teddy was arrested the other day."......."I looked at the screen and I realized : Teddy was dark. I am light; I have olive skin. But the camera can't expose for light and dark at the same time." ( Noah 158 ) This is showing race because although Trevor is black he doesn't look black and his friend teddy does look black cause he is black. They arrested Teddy because of his skin color.

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"In Soweto, we lived in a black area, and nobody looked like me. Eden park was a colored area. In Eden Park, everyone looked like me, but we couldn't have been more different" (Noah 117). This described the topic of Identity because it talks about how he has multiple identity's. Wherever he goes people see him as a differently person.

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"Maylene was also the only colored girl in school. I was the only mixed kid in school. We were the only two people that looked like each other. The white girls were insistent about me asking Maylene to be my Valentine"( Noah 130). This quote from Noah described how people, at school and in the real world, generalize about race despite being a very diverse place. Later on he talks about Maylene going to be with another boy and "upsetting the balance" at the school. "Upsetting a balance" is something that the South African government feared, as a result they kept people separated. Trevor experienced the effect of this on a very small scale at his school on Valentines Day