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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

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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Born, Hatred, Ideas, Need, Our