What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETWhat 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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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