Angèle Rawiri

Angèle Christiane Rawiri was born in 1954 in Port-Gentil. She was the daughter of Georges Rawiri, a Gabonese politician, diplomat and poet who was a friend of President Omar Bongo. She was orphaned at the age of 6. She studied at university in France

Quotes

• “Doubt is a secure state behind which we can hide to protect ourselves and demand the understanding of others. The knowledge of the truth demolishes the ramparts that we have forged for ourselves and delivers you to yourself and to the judgment of third parties.”[1]
• “How strange it is that beings who esteem each other, love each other, cannot coexist for a long time without their relationships deteriorating. As if friendship, love needed space to endure. And at the same time, this physical distance, which keeps intact the feelings we have for the other and which embellishes the memory, distances us forever from the other if it lasts too long. It seems that men only meet to go a long way together, for a very specific duration and experience, before separating to allow everyone to move forward alone in this labyrinth that is life or before being separated by death. What does man remember about these often painful separations?”[2]
• “Most often when we meet people on the street, we are not able to assess the sum of their pains. It often happens to us to think that the turbulences that they can go through are not as strong as ours. And even when we observe, by approaching them more closely, the tragedies that they are experiencing, we remain convinced that our misfortunes are more considerable than theirs.”[3]