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.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

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.

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.