Quote

One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.

Trevor Noah

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Trevor Noah
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 20
Actor
Comedian
Disc Jockey
Film Actor
Film Producer
Philanthropist
Podcaster
Presenter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Within
Donald
Hateful
Didn
Following
Severe
People
Victory
Noticed
Coming
Online
Trump
Immediately
Team
Notice
Days
Towards
Almost
Messages
Spike

More quotes by Trevor Noah

Image
I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.
Trevor Noah
Image
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
Image
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
Trevor Noah
Image
If I could get an honest answer, I would ask Trump. How much money would you want in order to leave the presidency? Because I think he would have a number, strangely enough. Then we'd know how much to launch the Kickstarter for.
Trevor Noah
Image
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.
Trevor Noah
Image
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
Image
My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.
Trevor Noah
Image
If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.
Trevor Noah
Image
Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
Trevor Noah
Image
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.
Trevor Noah
Image
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
Image
Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.
Trevor Noah
Image
I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how I saw the world. I was just like, some dads are whites and some moms are black. And that's how it is.
Trevor Noah
Image
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
Image
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
Image
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
Trevor Noah
Image
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.
Trevor Noah
Image
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
Image
It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.
Trevor Noah
Image
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.
Trevor Noah