Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world. — Trevor Noah Comedian Copy Share Image
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But… — Trevor Noah Bar mitzvah Copy Share Image
If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew… — Trevor Noah Family Copy Share Image
“The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because… — Trevor Noah Apartheid 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 People 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
“But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question… — Trevor Noah Failure Copy Share Image
“The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import… — Trevor Noah Japanese Copy Share Image
I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in… — Trevor Noah Along for the ride Copy Share Image
“So, for many young men in South Africa’s townships, freedom looks like this: Every morning they wake up, maybe their parents go… — Trevor Noah Every morning 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
I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride… — 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
I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I… — Trevor Noah Authority Copy Share Image
Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the… — Trevor Noah African culture Copy Share Image
Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I don't think I, myself, am personally afraid. I do worry for the press, though, because Donald Trump has shown himself to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the… — Trevor Noah Language 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 Fear Copy Share Image
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going… — 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 Accents 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 Book Copy Share Image
I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel… — Trevor Noah America Copy Share Image
I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as… — Trevor Noah Frightening Copy Share Image
“If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet—tweets, Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read the equivalent of a… — Trevor Noah Books Copy Share Image
“Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo!” was the chant they would rally to during the freedom struggle. “When you strike a woman, you strike a rock.”… — 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 Biography Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is… — Trevor Noah America 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 Biography Copy Share Image
I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know -… — Trevor Noah Character Copy Share Image
I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that.… — Trevor Noah Catholic 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 Brain 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 Biography Copy Share Image
“I'd never done Valentine's Day before. We didn't celebrate it in Catholic School. I understood Valentine's Day, as a concept. The naked… — Trevor Noah Fall in love Copy Share Image
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![“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)
