Olympe Bhêly-Quenum

Olympe Bhêly-Quenum (born 20 September 1928) is a Beninese writer, journalist and magazine editor. He is the nephew of anthropologist Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olympe_Bh%C3%AAly-Quenum&action=edit Quotes Boredom, I do not know what it is, no doubt because I read; I read slowly, a lot, often taking notes; I never engage in a debate, even a literary one, without having sufficiently informed myself on the subject.https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olympe_Bh%C3%AAly-Quenum?hl=en-US#:~:text=La%20vie%20est%20une%20s%C3%A9rie%20d'absurdit%C3%A9s%20sans,Olympe%20Bh%C3%AAly%2DQu%C3%A9num%2C%20%C3%A9d.%20Librairie%20Stock%2C%201960%2C%20p. A book is not written for oneself; it is written to be read, to spark thought, and to create a dialogue between the writer and the world.https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olympe_Bh%C3%AAly-Quenum?hl=en-US#:~:text=La%20vie%20est%20une%20s%C3%A9rie%20d'absurdit%C3%A9s%20sans,Olympe%20Bh%C3%AAly%2DQu%C3%A9num%2C%20%C3%A9d.%20Librairie%20Stock%2C%201960%2C%20p. To write is to refuse silence in the face of human suffering and injustice.https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olympe_Bh%C3%AAly-Quenum?hl=en-US#:~:text=82.%20La%20condition%20des%20femmes%20dignes%20du,Bh%C3%AAly%2DQu%C3%A9num%2C%20%C3%A9d.%20Librairie%20Stock%2C%201960%2C%20p.%20110. Life is a series of nameless absurdities, a desert of decay where men cling to futile and vain things upon which they build their hopes.https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olympe_Bh%C3%AAly-Quenum?hl=en-US#:~:text=82.%20La%20condition%20des%20femmes%20dignes%20du,Bh%C3%AAly%2DQu%C3%A9num%2C%20%C3%A9d.%20Librairie%20Stock%2C%201960%2C%20p.%20110. Understanding is the source of all true and lasting friendship. The condition of women worthy of the name of mothers is that their whole life is a long waiting and a patience that will end only in death. We are all strangers on earth, searching here and there for the path to true happiness. It is not easy for a people to promote their culture as long as, politically and economically, they are not masters of themselves and their affairs. It would not be improbable to find, among Black people, spiritual forces from which white people could benefit once their Aryan superiority complexes have disappeared. References