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

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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

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