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I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.

Trevor Noah's Popular Quotes

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

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Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

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Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and …

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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…

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I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you …

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Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

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What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

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