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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, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
 
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Jean Genet
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   Dec 19, 1910
 
Date of Death:   Apr 15,  1986
 
Profession:   Dramatist
 
 
 
 
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