Genet

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    Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    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 (1910–1986)

    What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)