Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I… — 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
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
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
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
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
America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African… — 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,… — 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
“Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. You will face… — 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
![“I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9b/trevor-noah-1603_born_i-don-t-even-remember-hearing-about-immo_2685760.jpg)
![“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/img-quotes/b8e/trevor-noah-1603_along-for-the-ride_i-was-lucky-to-come-along-for-the-ride-m_156584.jpg)
![“People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee7/trevor-noah-1603_people_people-were-encouraged-to-snitch-south-a_1183774.jpg)
![“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/771/trevor-noah-1603_aftermath_america-is-the-one-place-in-the-world-wh_621125.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/56c/trevor-noah-1603_checks_the-police-in-south-africa-would-check-i_2300959.jpg)
