Genet

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    Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    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 (1910–1986)

    Perhaps having built a barricade when you’re sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you’ve once taken part in building one, even inadvertently, doesn’t its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you’re tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)