Trevor Noah Quotes

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

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

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

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 your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.

When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

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

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

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 feel.

There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

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.

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

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that. And she felt a deep connection.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

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

I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.

No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.

Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.

Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.

Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

We have a fair amount of racism.

My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.