Trevor Noah Quotes

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Language, especially in this country is a daily plebiscite.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

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

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.