Trevor Noah Quotes

As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown we...

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as...

I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with reg...

I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with reg...

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white c...

That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that fo...

Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head....

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world bec...

you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a ...

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ri...

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you...

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. B...

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is...

The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no t...

My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look...

It's a powerful experience, shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God...

When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and ...

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How woul...

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. Y...

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. Bu...

Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. You can say that you don’t pick sides, but event...

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction bet...

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know ...

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a come...

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way...

Don't fight the system, mock the system

Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full...

A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less th...

One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock y...

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like s...

Relationships are built in the silences.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, dependin...

People say all the time that they’d do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Woul...

The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you...