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I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.
Trevor Noah
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Trevor Noah
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 20
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Johannesburg
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My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.
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[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.
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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.
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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 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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I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.
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Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
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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.
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So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not true.
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My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.
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