Stormquest (1987)

Dudu Mkhize: Kinya

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Quotes 

• Accuser : You Tani, treasury guard, you abused our trust by stealing gold.

  Tani : That's a lie! I didn't steal it, I borrowed it.

  [the crowd loughs] 

  Accuser : You Asha, huntress and warrioress, this is the wrong you've done...

  [a man is dragged into the court] 

  Tani : Turo!

  [crying over his body] 

  Accuser : You brought a man among us. Against our customs, you lived with him in secret. Why?

  Asha : Because I love him!

  Accuser : No more from you.

  [pause] 

  Accuser : Kinya, oracle of the goddess, keeper of the sacred lioness, where has she been now, where is our lioness god?

  Kinya : I set her free, as you well know.

  High Judge : Sacrilege!

  Kinya : Wasn't it sacrilege to lock up the goddess in her cage?

  High Judge : We'll hear no more of this! Listen, Kinya!...

  Kinya : You do not listen! Simply listen to me, and I'll listen.

  High Judge : By your long tongue you've condemned yourself. You listen too much and speak too much.

• Kinya : Where we come from we're not accustomed to men.

  Sulan : We've heard of Kymbia. I guess no men at all is better than slaves men.

  Zar : That's for us. We're rebels.

  Ara : Rebels? Against what?

  Zar : The men of this land have two alternatives: to be a stud, or a dronie, which is neither. We want freedom.

  Ara : Is the option of you to rebellion to enslave women?

  Zar : We don' want to dominate anyone.

  Sulan : [off camera]  All we want is equality.

  Zar : Domination over sex or the younger is evil. It's happening to you too.

  Ara : Yes... if things were different, my sister would still be alive.