Quotes By Jean Genet
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
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
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Jean Genet
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
Jean Genet
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
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
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
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
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet