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You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

- John Kani
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The only reference in my life is my life, and it's my life experience. It's my environment. It's my community. I've not made that for books.

Acting became a powerful tool for change. You had to tell stories that were important to you.

I did 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead' for 34 years.

Inkaba' is about a feud between two South African families. They have been fighting for years, from one generation to the next. It's like those typical feuds you have in rural KwaZulu-Natal where, after a while, you do not even know why you are fighting.

My love, my passion, my everything is this continent of Africa. I have always celebrated African humanity.

'Captain Marvel,' whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.

Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.

The exchange rate of the Rand against the dollar, pound or euro makes South Africa an attractive location. The positive side of this is it gives our artists and technicians an opportunity to work.

It is a troubled soul that forces the human being to act. It is some kind of gangrene within you, inside of you, that eats your soul, that forces you to save your soul.

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You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.