The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.Jean Genet
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
Jean Genet
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
Jean Genet
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
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