I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid. — 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 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
I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in… — 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 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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 was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/trevor-noah-1603_along-for-the-ride_i-was-lucky-to-come-along-for-the-ride-m_156584.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/quotes/i/691/trevor-noah-1603_apartheid_so-what-you-do-under-apartheid-system-is_448153.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/quotes/i/5b9/trevor-noah-1603_arrested_those-were-the-places-where-many-people_2125606.jpg)
