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  • It dawned on me that theatre is a powerful weapon for change.
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  • You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.
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  • Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.
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  • Over the years, many young actors have approached me: Vusi Kunene, Sello Maake ka Ncube, and Seputla Sebogodi. They all said, 'Hey Bra John, let's do 'The Island and we want you to direct.' But somehow, my heart was not in it or I was busy with something else, so I'd say, 'ja, ja, we'll do 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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  • We are sort of not at the level of entertainment that the Western world is. Everything we see on the play in the screen, we read, we take serious. We take that it speaks to me. And so wonderful to see how the Johannesburg, South African audiences will say: What does it say to me? What does it make me feel? Why am I celebrating it?
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  • My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.
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  • 'iNkaba' has made me famous in the living rooms of the people of my country. It was almost like being famous all over again. People stop me in the street and shopping malls to take pictures.
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  • Someone once asked me what I missed most. I said, 'My youth.' I've never been a boy who could run around, go crazy, do this, try that. There wasn't time for that.
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  • Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'
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