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. Jean Genet Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak? Jean Genet Read Quote
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet Read Quote
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Jean Genet Read Quote
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 Read Quote
