Trevor Noah
Born 1984
From Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa · Nationality: South Africa
Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, television host, writer, producer, political commentator, and actor.
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Quotes
“If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors, you’re a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, p. 6 “The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.””
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood “People built homes the way they bought eggs: a little at a time.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood “People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, p. 188 “Laughter is strange in that if we think of all the emotions that we’re able to express or feel, one of the things about laughter that’s particularly interesting to me is it’s one of the few emotions that robs your pain of its power.”
"Sex, Comedy and Context: A Live Conversation with Trevor Noah" on Where Should
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Trevor Noah in order
Books by Trevor Noah in the order they were published, from Born a Crime (2016) to Into the Uncut Grass (2023).
