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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
Explore more quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
"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 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 write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
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