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"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
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"The world system is employment."
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."
"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."
"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
"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 hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
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