Be Vigilant, For Nothing One Achieves Lasts

People Must Insist On The Right To Say No, To Be Alone, To Stand Out From The Herd. Creative Artists Can Say All This In Their Own Way And In Their Own Field, By Hard, Rigorous Work.

My Sensibility Steers Me Toward Writers Who Are Out On Their Own.

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.

The Power Of The Word In Morocco Belonged To Men And To The Authorities. No One Asked The Point Of View Of Poor People Or Women.

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.