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“They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains.””

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“And he dreaded prison more than anything, not because survival in the gourbis was anybetter, but because nothing would be more humiliating than being labeled a criminal. He had inherited a sense of honour that gave him – he, the poorest of the poor – the pride of a blind man and the humility of a prince.””

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“Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause.””

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“In the intoxication of being twenty and swept up by my reading, I hoped to live in the light of day, in joy, refusing submission, shackles and conformity.””

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