Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
From Jean Genet
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
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.
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.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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