Quote by Jean Genet
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fr

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

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

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Racism
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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. – Jean Genet

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

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History
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Other Quotes from
Prison
category

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Prison

It isnt true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa

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Prison

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Prison

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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Prison

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of Gods approval. – Thomas S. Monson

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Courage

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Poetry

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

Category:
Integrity

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

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Imagination