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" I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. "

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" I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. "

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" Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. "

" Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. "

" In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. "

" My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. "

" I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. "

" We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. "

" The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. "

" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "

" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "

" The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. "

" We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. "

" To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. "

" I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. "

" I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. "

" I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. "

" People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. "

" What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. "

" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "

" I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. "

" The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. "

" It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. "

" This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. "

" Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. "

" The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. "

" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

" I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. "

" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "

" A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. "