Chinua Achebe Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013
Birthday: November 16
Death: March 21
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.
source: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi
topic: Eye, Past, Men, Cold Eyes
