“Our domestic life and the law of our Homes do not resemble your Homes. We love each other without love. Our homes do not have the sacramental character. Fags are the great immoralists.Jean Genet
“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
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.Jean Genet
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.Jean Genet
“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