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

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.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

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

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

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.