Trevor Noah Quotes

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society; it is a product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese.

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

Everything has to do with geography.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

I am myself of a mixed background.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.