Sizwe Bansi is Dead Paper 2 Quotes
More important than your name
"Burn that into your head, friend. You hear me? It's more important than your name."
Daddy, if I could...
"Daddy, if I could stand on my own two feet and not be somebody else's tool, I'd have some respect for myself. I'd be a man."
masculinity/the book
"Does that book tell you I'm a man?" "They said: Book of life! Your friend! You'll never get lost! They told us lies."
Look at me...
"Look at me! I'm a man. I've got legs. I can run with a wheelbarrow full of cement!"
intimacy
"Looks around as if someone might be eavesdropping on his intimacy with the audience."
Photography
"Mr. Robert Zwenlinzima, Chief Messenger at Feltex, sitting in his office with the world behind him. Smile, Robert. Smile!"
Hours in a day
"Out of every twenty-four hours I could only properly call mine the six when I was sleeping."
Record...
"Record card. Your whole bloody life is written down on that."
Meta
"Robert, Jon, Athol, Winston... Shit on names, man!"
Only time we find peace
"The only time we'll find peace is when they dig a hole for us and press our face into the earth."
Minimalist Set
"The setting for this and subsequent scenes should be as simple as possible so that the action can be continuous."
Our memory
"There is nothing we can leave behind when we die, except the memory of ourselves."
The dreamers
"This is a strong-room of dreams. The dreamers? My people. The simple, who you never find mentioned in the history books..."
Pride
"What I'm saying is shit on our pride if we only bluff ourselves that we are men!"
Ghost
"When a white man looks at you at the Labor Bureau what did he see? A man with dignity or a bloody passbook with an NI Number? Isn't that a ghost?"
Your life...
"Your life doesn't belong to you. You've sold it."
Friends and Good people
Hey, where did you get all these wonderful people?" "What's happening in this world, good people?"
