Genet

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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.
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent—or they themselves—was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)