In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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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.Tahar Ben Jelloun
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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