"said I was a man for all Africa, bound to her by my spirit, bound with her by my dreams" "Silence!" "Hang him up" "Hang him up!" "You will pay for the deaths of our grandfathers and grandmothers, all English will pay, and you will be first." "Heil Hitler!" "In the name of Adolf Hitler and the father-land," "I sentence you to die rooinek!" "It seems I was to loose everyone I'd ever loved, or had ever loved me." "Loneliness birds seemed to fly into my heart and lay large, stone eggs" "My whole body hurt with sadness" "I did not know how to chase the loneliness birds away" "That was how I met Doc, who collected cacti, played piano, and showed me how to talk to his donkey, Beethoven" "Doc was a famous pianist who gave concerts all over the world" "While he was in South Africa, the war broke out, he couldn't go home" "Doc showed me Africa" "He made Africa, my classroom" "One by one, the loneliness birds flew away, with the stone eggs they had laid in my heart" "Everything in nature is co-operation" "It was then I realised that the Africaaners were not the only ones to hate and fear others" "The loneliness birds began to circle again" "Every day after school, my grandfather would walk me down to the prison and fetch me home at sundown" "I would bring my bucket, with a cactus wraped in a tabaco leaf to keep it moist" "The PK I know is a lot more than just Satisfactory - he has a brain" "In my school you get beaten up if you have a brain" "To have a brain is not a sin, to have a brain and not use it, that is a sin" "I will introduce you to someone who will show you how to use your brain to keep from getting beaten up" "Little beat big when little smart first with the head, then with the heart" "When I first Geel Piet, he spent 40 of his 55 years in 1 prison or another" "He told me he'd been a thief, a con man, and a lot of other things" "Now he was my teacher and my friend" "Can't catch you, can't hit you" "Can't hit you, can't hurt you!" "When it is a person's job to punish, it's all they know how to do" "To survive in prison, Geel Piet became an expert in camouflage, a master of the invisible" "His goal was to draw as little attention to himself while getting exactly what he and his fellow prisoners needed" "I also became the unofficial letter writer, at Geel Piet's suggestion" "That song about the Rainmaker, why are they always singing it around me?" "All the tribes believe, little boss that when there is drought, it is because the people are in conflict" "The rainmaker cools things down" "The earth, the sky, the people" "He stops the conflict, he brings the rain, he brings the peace" "you treat all the tribes equally" "you not show favouratism for one tribe over another" "little hope never hurt no one ya, but it's false hope" "better than no hope at all" "it still broke my heart to see a man I loved so degraded it also made me angry" "Angry that it was done, angry that I couldn't do anything to change it" "they look confused" "They are confused, little boss." "They are confused, they are afraid" "They are cowards" "Sometimes, we must try to take what is not wonderful and make it so" "The "myth" is as old as Africa" "To the people, myth is stronger than love, stronger than hate" "it gives them reason to do what they would never do" "I just finished the lyrics" "They're about the guards" "They run this way, they run that way" "They are confused, they are afraid they are cowards" "All the tribes together" "First time, because of you" "Hearing the tribes singing together, Geel Piet dropped his camouflage and defied Sgt. Bormann" "For that one, brief moment, he was a free man before he died" "The war ended, Doc went home to Germany, and once again I was left alone, fending off the loneliness birds" "Trying as Doc and Geel Piet had taught me, to turn my sadness into something wonderful" "Because no matter how much I wanted to believe I could, my heart never let me" "Very evocative - singing, dieing, powerful images" "Any ideaolagy that needs to attack the thing that least threatens it, is an ideaology that will not outlive it's own generation" "The inclusion of exclusion, gentlemen, is the key to survival" "Dr Daniel Marais the man's the intellectual darling leader of the Nationalist Party" "Maria Elizabeth Marais" "Outside the ring, a black man is not equal." "Inside he is, but not in public, only in private." "Some say all our problems would be solved if we stopped thinking of South Africa in terms of seperate tribes" "Separation of things is not coincidental" "Do you think a Zulu wants to see his culture, his sense of identity replaced by someone elses?" "Any more than I do mine." "No sir, but I don't think he wants being a Zulu to mean he is denied the same rights that, that you and I enjoy" "Laws define rights" "I agree sir, but do they always define justice?" "Justice young man is only relative to who's in charge" "But perhaps how long they stay in charge is relative to how well they dispense that justice, no?" "For the record, sir, I procured my ideas long before I began English private school from a German expert on cacti" "Mr Gruenewald" "A waterfall begins with only one drop of water, sir." "Look what comes from that" "I won't hate like you, I won't!" "History takes too long" "Yes I know it does, but it's never kind to those who try to hurry it" "Find your heart!" "Do whatever you think is right!" "Gideon, listen to me." "I won't let this happen, they want me!" "It's not about you, it's about all of us" "Giving them what they want won't make the struggle any shorter" "It's over Botha!" "You've caught me." "Call them off, take me in!" "I remember how my nany would tell me that if I listened to the wind, I would hear the voices of my life." "I listened, and heard Doc talk about justice" "I heard Geel Piet talk about hope courage" "I heard Maria" "These are the voices of my life, the voices of Africa" "These are the voices I carried with me as Duma and I set out together, to help bring our country closer to a good tomorrow."