If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew… — Trevor Noah Family Copy Share Image
I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But… — Trevor Noah Bar mitzvah Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you… — Trevor Noah Dreams 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
“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
Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the… — Trevor Noah African culture Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I… — Trevor Noah Authority 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
“Soweto was designed to be bombed—that’s how forward-thinking the architects of apartheid were. The township was a city unto itself, with a… — Trevor Noah Air force 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
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking… — 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
“Can we help you?” “Nope.” “Do you need a tow?” And what do you say? The truth? “Thanks, but we’re just so… — Trevor Noah Truth 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
“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
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'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
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
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
There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they… — Trevor Noah Facts Copy Share Image
I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships… — Trevor Noah Growth 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… — Trevor Noah Culture Copy Share Image
If I could get an honest answer, I would ask Trump. "How much money would you want in order to leave the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t understand at the time was that the other kids genuinely had no clue what a white person was. Black… — Trevor Noah Time Copy Share Image
I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I’ll never forget the first time I went to a fancy restaurant as a grown man and someone told me, “You have… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My… — 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
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Apartheid Copy Share Image
People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation… — 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 America Copy Share Image
You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That's commonplace, and I think… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
![“[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/trevor-noah-1603_email_my-mother-will-write-me-an-email-and-it_1487748.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/i/56c/trevor-noah-1603_checks_the-police-in-south-africa-would-check-i_2300959.jpg)
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![“So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/trevor-noah-1603_apartheid_so-what-you-do-under-apartheid-system-is_448153.jpg)
