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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."

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"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."

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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."
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"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."
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"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
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"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."
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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
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"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."
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"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
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"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."
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