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| 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. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. 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. Violence is a calm that disturbs you. 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. |
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