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" Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Politics
Stay
Religion
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" 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. "
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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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" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. "
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" I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. "
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" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "
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" I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. "
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" We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. "
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" 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. "
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" Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. "
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Egypt
" An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. "
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" There are very few great poets in the world. "
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" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "
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" The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. "
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" 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. "
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" At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. "
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" 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. "
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" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "
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" Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. "
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