I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, … - Trevor Noah

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If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.

Trevor Noah

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.

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[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

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If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.

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Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

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There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

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People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry.

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