Tahar Ben Jelloun

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.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.