Buchi Emecheta Quotes

12 quotes in 247 categories

• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
• The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I…
• I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
• I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
• Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
• In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in…
• A hungry man is an angry one.
• I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another…
• I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to…
• As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
• I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time…

Browse Buchi Emecheta Quotes by Category