Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I always say to people, you know - someone goes, oh, well, what are you going to do about terrorist attacks and… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
If he says that, if he wins, he's going to, you know, dismantle the libel laws and come after the newspapers, I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927].… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“My family had been denied the things his family had taken for granted. I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
“Whilst my mother couldn't give me access to the world, she at least made sure to let me know it existed. A kid cannot… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
“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,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost every single… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
“I remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don't hold on to the trauma. I never let the memory of something painful… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the same.” A… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
My mom would spend a week in jail. She would spend a day in jail here - a week again, a week and a… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
“The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.” — Trevor Noah Copy Share
![“Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ead/trevor-noah-1603_comedy_comedy-is-a-great-tool-we-comics-are-try_1262228.jpg)
![“One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd8/trevor-noah-1603_following_one-of-the-people-from-my-online-team-sa_1873552.jpg)
![“People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee7/trevor-noah-1603_people_people-were-encouraged-to-snitch-south-a_1183774.jpg)
![“So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/691/trevor-noah-1603_apartheid_so-what-you-do-under-apartheid-system-is_448153.jpg)
![“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/56c/trevor-noah-1603_checks_the-police-in-south-africa-would-check-i_2300959.jpg)
![“I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b0/trevor-noah-1603_causes_i-was-like-wow-this-guy-s-donald-trump-g_1696351.jpg)
![“Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b9/trevor-noah-1603_arrested_those-were-the-places-where-many-people_2125606.jpg)
