Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. — Trevor Noah Boundaries Copy Share Image
“You’re trying to teach him a lesson, and now that lesson is the rest of his life.” — Trevor Noah Education Copy Share Image
I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the… — Trevor Noah Facts 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
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
“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face.… — Trevor Noah Crime Copy Share Image
“The hood has a gravitational pull. It never leaves you behind, but it also never lets you leave. Because by making the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you… — Trevor Noah Language Copy Share Image
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll… — Trevor Noah Fish Copy Share Image
“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s… — Trevor Noah Ghetto Copy Share Image
“-Why are you interrogating me? What's going on here? -Iwant to get to know you. -Is this how you normally get to… — Trevor Noah Spending time 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 Biography 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
“They were ready to do me violent harm, until they felt we were part of the same tribe, and then we were… — Trevor Noah Life Copy Share Image
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.… — Trevor Noah Bar mitzvah 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… — Trevor Noah Breaking the rules 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 America Copy Share Image
If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling,… — Trevor Noah Baby Copy Share Image
“When you strike a woman, you strike a rock.” As a nation, we recognized the power of women, but in the home… — Trevor Noah Feminism Copy Share Image
“you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Whatever it was, my mom said, I'm going to seek out more. And so I was constantly confused, which is sometimes a… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“My mom thought having a child was going to be like having a partner, but every child is born the center of… — Trevor Noah Children 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 Race Copy Share Image
I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said,… — Trevor Noah Alive 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 Biography Copy Share Image
“A YOUNG MAN’S LONG, AWKWARD, OCCASIONALLY TRAGIC, AND FREQUENTLY HUMILIATING EDUCATION IN AFFAIRS OF THE HEART, PART I: VALENTINE’S DAY It” — Trevor Noah Affairs of the heart Copy Share Image
I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions… — Trevor Noah America Copy Share Image
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me,… — Trevor Noah Creative act Copy Share Image
“She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged… — Trevor Noah Apartheid Copy Share Image
“I'd never done Valentine's Day before. We didn't celebrate it in Catholic School. I understood Valentine's Day, as a concept. The naked… — Trevor Noah Fall in love 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… — 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… — Trevor Noah Astronaut Copy Share Image
If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“Sun’qhela is a phrase with many shades of meaning. It says “don’t undermine me,” “don’t underestimate me,” and “just try me.” It’s… — 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
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
I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has… — Trevor Noah Communication Copy Share Image
![“-Why are you interrogating me? What's going on here? -Iwant to get to know you. -Is this how you normally get to know people, by interrogating them? -Well ... not really. -So how do you get to know people? - I dunno, by spending time with them I guess [...] -So in the time we've spent together…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34b/trevor-noah-1603_spending-time_why-are-you-interrogating-me-what-s-goin_2319002.jpg)
![“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom. People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/trevor-noah-1603_biography_i-t-is-easier-to-be-an-insider-as-an-out_1909876.jpg)
![“[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/trevor-noah-1603_bar-mitzvah_i-had-bar-mitzvah-it-was-just-me-and-my_2172412.jpg)
![“I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf5/trevor-noah-1603_alive_i-hate-using-this-term-miracle-i-m-a-man_1876236.jpg)
