No one talks to a white poet and says, “How do you feel about your complicity in indirectly fucking so many people over?”

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It's all personal for me. It’s the refusal to accept subjectivity as pretext for subjugation.

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I don’t find the need to declare Gaza, to name a place. Even Gaza now becomes a safe reflex for those of us who prefer to sigh. Gaza becomes a logo of suffering to be consumed by the “witness” poets of the western world, if and when the poem that mentions Gaza is not frowned upon for its “politics.”

- Fady Joudah in this interview at Divedapper

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