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Tété-Michel Kpomassie Quotes

born 1941

Tété-Michel Kpomassie is a Togolese writer and traveller best known for his autobiographical travel book L’Africain du Groenland (An African in Greenland), first published in 1980. He travelled from Togo to Greenland over roughly eight years and spent about two years living among Inuit communities.

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When two people look at each other for a long time, they are trying to see beyond appearances.

For me, literature works exactly the same way: everything human beings write is useful.

In my books, I have always remained an observer, never a judge.

It is truly insulting that people came and destroyed all this and imposed other ways upon us, even down to the way we think.

Describe rather than dictate: that is a lesson I learned from Gustave Flaubert.

All liberation comes from within. It is for Greenlanders to lead their own struggle.

I simply wanted to find a people I had learned to love through a book.

A moment like that is unforgettable.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tété-Michel Kpomassie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.