"I usually make sure that my stories are……" — Buchi Emecheta
"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 as telling the story."
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Buchi Emecheta
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12 Quotes by Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta has 12 quotes on this site.
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book…
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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years…
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a…
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A hungry man is an angry one.
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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything,…
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture…
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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