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.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

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

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

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.