“Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.”
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
