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"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."


"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."


"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."


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


"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."


"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power."
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