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• ‟ I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.

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• ‟ In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask comes off it's a white man.

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• ‟ In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.

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• ‟ 'Sizwa Banzi' is the life of the black man. We look at it, laugh at it, re-examine it, but we do not change it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I always say my first break was a dead man's break.

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• ‟ I was the generation who hated the white man, despised him, wanted to shoot him.

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