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.

Quote by Jean Genet

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the...

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

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

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

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

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

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

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

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

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

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

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.