The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)

James Earl Jones: Jim Kalla

Quotes 

• Jim Kalla : I rode the buses back in the 60s to bring people together. Seems pretty unfashonable nowadays.

  Kenya Nkomo : Your wife - she's Jewish, ain't she?

  Jim Kalla : You know, I've forgotten what she is. All I know... is that we met on the back of a bus.

• Jim Kalla : Those whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad.

• Godfrey : I came across another great line. 'The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.'

  Jim Kalla : That is a great line.

  Godfrey : The poets. Nobody pays enough attention to them anymore.

• Jim Kalla : I read years ago that someone once said that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad. Or maybe it's just that we're an unfinished piece of art. Part tragedy, part comedy, part joy, part farce, a work in progress. But for the moment we're still painting and writing in blood. And it always seems to come out of a lot of suffering and someday, after it all dries, it will be magnificent. But until then, like all art, it's messy as hell.