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 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
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
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
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
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
Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people. — 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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