92 Quotes by John Kani

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    I started to get my doctorate, not to be called 'doctor.' Those are just little things you get to get recognition.

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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.

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    Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

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    I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

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    I used to wonder, when my grandmother would tell me what the wolf said to the jackal, how these animals can talk. And, she would say, 'in my stories, animals talk. Shut up and listen.'

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    Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

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

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    In 'Lion King,' the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.

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    Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.

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