Best quotes by John Kani on Time

Checkout quotes by John Kani on Time

• ‟ Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.

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• ‟ We never deal with propaganda. We never deal with politics. We never deal with newspaper headlines. We deal with the harsh realities of our lives. We will only comment when there is more bread to eat, more space in which to move, time in which to open your mouth and sing. As long as these things have not happened, we do not talk about politics.

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

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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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• ‟ I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.

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