Bertrand Poirot-Delpech  

Bertrand Poirot-Delpech: “Does being white make one guilty? A sort of original sin?”

Jean Genet: “I don’t think of it as original sin; in any case not the one the Bible talks about. No, it’s a sin that is completely deliberate.”

BPD: “You didn’t want to be born white, from what I can tell?”

JG: “Oh, in that sense, by being born white and being against whites, I have played all the boards at once. I’m thrilled when whites are hurting and I’m protected by the power of whites, since I too have white skin and blue eyes, or green, or gray.”