"My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time."

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

Abdellah Taia

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