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

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.