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.

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.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

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

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

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.