“I’d rather held back with people I liked than move ahead with people I didn’t know” — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. — Trevor Noah Giving Copy Share Image
Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“You’re trying to teach him a lesson, and now that lesson is the rest of his life.” — Trevor Noah Education Copy Share Image
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. — Trevor Noah Boundaries Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don’t live with… — 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
“I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by… — Trevor Noah Outcast Copy Share Image
“Growing up the way I did, I learned how easy it is for white people to get comfortable with a system that… — Trevor Noah White people Copy Share Image
“It’s no coincidence that nearly every major black leader of the anti-apartheid movement, from Nelson Mandela to Steve Biko, was educated by… — Trevor Noah Free man Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American… — Trevor Noah Gay 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
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you… — Trevor Noah Dreams Copy Share Image
It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be… — Trevor Noah America Copy Share Image
[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I learned about how Christianity works: If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African… — Trevor Noah Christianity Copy Share Image
This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I think it does because if you think of where "The Daily Show" was when I inherited it from Jon Stewart, I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That's commonplace, and I think… — 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 America 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 Apartheid Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things… — Trevor Noah Afraid of failure Copy Share Image
“I prided myself on being the ultimate prankster. Every teacher at school used overhead projectors to put their notes up on the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I’d found my niche. Since I belonged to no group I learned to move seamlessly between groups. I floated. I was a… — 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 Black people 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 Friends and family Copy Share Image
“But I was blessed with another trait I inherited from my mother: her ability to forget the pain in life. I remember… — Trevor Noah Breaking the rules 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,… — Trevor Noah Family Copy Share Image
What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another. — Trevor Noah Apartheid Copy Share Image
I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all. — Trevor Noah Mother Copy Share Image
Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I was wanted. Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being. Once” — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting. — Trevor Noah Intelligence Copy Share Image
I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color. — Trevor Noah Chameleon Copy Share Image
“That’s who I was. Always an outsider. As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or” — Trevor Noah Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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![“[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ddc/trevor-noah-1603_email_my-mother-will-write-me-an-email-and-it_1487748.jpg)
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