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.

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

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

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.

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

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