Why can’t they be both? Trevor Noah More Quotes by Trevor Noah More Quotes From Trevor Noah 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. Trevor Noah spacebelieveamerica 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. Trevor Noah causesamericathinking Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. Trevor Noah colorlanguagepeople 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. Trevor Noah knightscharacterworld Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. Trevor Noah sawsmomworld [Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life. Trevor Noah whole-lifelanguagetools [Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool. This is something presidents do sometimes. Don't make everything that Trump does a scandal because what'll happen is you'll diminish the real scandals, you know? You've got to get over the fact that you hate the person and rather focus on what you're trying to do. Trevor Noah haterealstupid Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space. Trevor Noah spaceworldthinking Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent who's slightly different to theirs. Trevor Noah hateamericapeople 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. Trevor Noah countryamericathinking 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. Trevor Noah factspeoplethinking People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry. Trevor Noah foundationone-daypeople I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa. Trevor Noah growing-upparentlaw 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. Trevor Noah isolationneedsthinking I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool. Trevor Noah powerfulmotherbaby Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did. Trevor Noah black-and-whitemotherfather You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That's commonplace, and I think we need to spend more time doing that with mental help. You know, a lot of us have issues that we don't work on and we don't deal with, and I try. I try my utmost. Trevor Noah issuestryingthinking America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned. Trevor Noah democracytakenamerica I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed. Trevor Noah hatredselfpeople I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible. Trevor Noah politicaltryingworld
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