Jean Genet Quotes

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
JEAN GENET

Recognition
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
JEAN GENET

Application Ideology Object
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
JEAN GENET

Language Stretch Wrap
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 knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET
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

End Image
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

Branch
I decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENET
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
JEAN GENET

Slow

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