Trevor Noah

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

— Trevor Noah

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

— Trevor Noah

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

— Trevor Noah

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

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

— Trevor Noah

“The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because…

— Trevor Noah

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew…

— Trevor Noah

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you…

— Trevor Noah

It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be…

— Trevor Noah

[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch…

— Trevor Noah

I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in…

— Trevor Noah

“The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import…

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People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were…

— Trevor Noah

[Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool.…

— Trevor Noah

I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom…

— Trevor Noah

“I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride…

— Trevor Noah

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

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the…

— Trevor Noah

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

“If you think too much about the ass-kicking your mom gave you, or the ass-kicking that life gave you, you’ll stop pushing…

— Trevor Noah

The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look…

— Trevor Noah

“Which seems ridiculous, but it would happen. Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. It wasn’t a…

— Trevor Noah

“My family had been denied the things his family had taken for granted. I had a natural talent for selling to people,…

— Trevor Noah

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

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

“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

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

I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as…

— Trevor Noah

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel…

— Trevor Noah

“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

I always say to people, you know - someone goes, oh, well, what are you going to do about terrorist attacks and…

— Trevor Noah

In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my…

— Trevor Noah

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

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going…

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“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

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there…

— Trevor Noah

We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is…

— Trevor Noah

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to…

— Trevor Noah

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of…

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I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know -…

— Trevor Noah