92 Quotes by John Kani

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

When I'm abroad it's almost like I'm in a transit lounge. I'm only comfortable when I know the date of departure.

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

I'm Dad at home, not John Kani.

Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of protest against the government. But with the end of apartheid, like the artists who watched the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe, theater had to find new voices and search for new issues.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.

In Australia, I almost became a counsellor. At the end of each performance there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all wanted to explain why they left South Africa.

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.