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.
- Jean Genet
Shame, Over, Been, Centuries
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
- Jean Genet
Some, Application, Liberation
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
- Jean Genet
Never, Been, Would, Realizing
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
- Jean Genet
Fact, Shares, Anyone, Singularity
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
- Jean Genet
Green, Idle, Wanting, Homosexual
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
- Jean Genet
Name, Give, Idle, Boldness
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
Deep, American, Country, I Wonder
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
- Jean Genet
Deep, Cunning, Traitors, Thieves
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
Virtues, Forbidden, Your, Organize
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- Jean Genet
Long Time, Dreaming, Act, Order
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
- Jean Genet
Nothing, Ecstasy, Anyone, Experienced
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
- Jean Genet
Suicide, Audience, Hamlet, Lines
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
- Jean Genet
Harmony, Elegance, Bad, Height
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
- Jean Genet
Ideas, Born, Need, Hatred
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- Jean Genet
Same, Ashamed, Which, Constitute
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
Success, Extent, Owes, Heroes
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
- Jean Genet
Violence, You, Calm
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
Shadow, Image, May, Gun
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