“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
“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
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
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. — 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 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“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 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
