"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."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.”
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
“Each time I think Iâ€™ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.”
“In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.”
“[Donald Trump administration] didn`t ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.”

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“I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.”
“There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.”
“The Danger of a Single Storyâ€, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. â€œPower is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, â€œsecondly.”

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