Trevor Noah Quotes

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

  Trevor Noah

  World, Always Believe, Knows

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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

  Trevor Noah

  Gente, Puede Hacer

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2015

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• In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy.

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  Powerful, Kids, House

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.

  Trevor Noah

  Beautiful, Love Is, Hands

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.

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  Mean, Space, People

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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

  Trevor Noah

  Hate, Groups, Apartheid

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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

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  Color, Perception, Chameleon

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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

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  People, Trying, Tools

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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• 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?"

  Trevor Noah

  Believe, People, What If

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

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  Views, Trying, Opinion

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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

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  Thinking, People, Language

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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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 true.

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  People, Community, Black

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.

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  Speak English, Trying, Dutch

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Helping, Weak

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Looks, Like You, Spokes

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• I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, "Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don't understand why everybody is not this."

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  Mom, Hate, Simple

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."

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  Mean, Jail, Rocks

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.

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  Play, Doors, Energy

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• If he says that, if he wins, he's going to, you know, dismantle the libel laws and come after the newspapers, I feel like we should take him at his word. This is the same man who has been writing letters to people who he's, you know, bared a grudge against for 20 years. So if Donald Trump says that, I don't know why you wouldn't want to believe him.

  Trevor Noah

  Believe, Writing, Winning

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• 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 ethnicity, and I would mimic them. And when I came to the U.S., I remember one day we're at "The Daily Show." And I mimicked my Chinese friend. And the guys at the show were like, oh, hey, don't ever do that again. That's really racist.

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  Ethnicity, Guy, Chinese

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• 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.

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  Thinking, America, Causes

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.

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  Silly, Journey, Talking

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Las familias vivían separadas de los padres. Y así, aunque según la cultura africana el hombre era el cabeza de familia, lo cierto es que las mujeres eran las que criaban a todo el mundo, incluidos los hombres. Y crecer con mi madre fue algo que realmente aprendí a apreciar.

  Trevor Noah

  Madre, Crecer, Padre

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people will. I will work every day to be as honest as I can because I do believe that we're all trying to get to the same place. But various people have tricked us into believing that we are not. And I see America going into that space.

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  Believe, America, Space

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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

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  Color, People, Language

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