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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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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."

"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."

"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
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