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Trevor Noah
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 20
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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.
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I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.
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I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
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A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.
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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.
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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.
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Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.
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[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.
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I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.
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