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Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.
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Trevor Noah
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 20
Actor
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Johannesburg
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Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.
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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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My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.
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Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.
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Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
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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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Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo. Which means, You strike a woman, you strike a rock.
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I'm always fascinated when people say, We found rude conversations people had via e-mail. Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!
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When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
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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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People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.
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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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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 don't think I, myself, am personally afraid. I do worry for the press, though, because Donald Trump has shown himself to be extremely thin-skinned. He does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
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It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
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I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.
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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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Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.
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Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
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Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
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