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Top 34 Best Trevor Noah Quotes
#1. That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I
#2. That's who I was. Always an outsider. As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or
#3. 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 a command and a threat, all at once. It
#4. We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
#5. it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.
#6. If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.
#7. If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.
#8. I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
#9. People love to say, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing.
#10. 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.
#11. Often, people who can do, don't because they're afraid of what people that can't do will say about them doing.
#12. Growing up the way I did, I learned how easy it is for white people to get comfortable with a system that awards them all the perks. I
#13. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.
#14. Don't fight the system, mock the system
#15. Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.
#16. I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
#17. 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.
#18. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
#19. I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.
#20. Race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Humans being humans, and sex being sex, that prohibition never stopped anyone. There were mixed kids in south Africa 9 months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach at Table Bay.
#21. My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids.
#22. I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.
#23. Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them - and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.
#24. My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his ... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid ... a practical maid. No fantasies.
#25. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.
#26. I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.
#27. It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
#28. 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.
#29. A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions.
#30. Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.
#31. Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
#32. In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
#33. I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.
#34. Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.
