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.
From Tahar Ben Jelloun
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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.
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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.
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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