- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
- Consultation
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- Nov 07, 2020
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
- Lasts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very few great poets in the world.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Calmly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020