In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

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.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

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

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

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

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