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Quote by Jean Genet
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. T

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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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, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

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Racism
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Jean Genet
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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Suicide
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Jean Genet
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Prison
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The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. – George W. Bush

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History

Its a struggle but thats why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. – Audre Lorde

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History

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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History

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. – Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man

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History

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Affluence creates poverty. – Marshall McLuhan

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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by

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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. – Author Unknown

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