French - Dramatist | December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Jean Genet
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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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.
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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.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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