My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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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.Tahar Ben Jelloun
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 belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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