Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

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.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry | Urgent | Denounce | Injustice | Exploitation |

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