In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. You can say that you don’t pick sides, but eventually life will… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“He has no education. He has no skills. He doesn't know what to do, where to be. The world has been taught… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“My mother calls it 'the black tax.' Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. You will face… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“What happened with education in South Africa, with the mission schools and the Bantu schools, offers a neat comparison of the two… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“It’s such a strange thing, but in two years of hustling I never once thought of it as a crime. I honestly… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Which seems ridiculous, but it would happen. Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. It wasn’t a… — 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
![“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom. People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/303/trevor-noah-1603_biography_i-t-is-easier-to-be-an-insider-as-an-out_1909876.jpg)
