Jean Genet Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”

“I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.”

“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.”

“What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.”

“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”

“I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.”

“Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”