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Jean Genet

"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

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"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

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"For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space."

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"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."

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"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."

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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."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."
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"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."
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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
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"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."
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"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
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