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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 when he…
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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go…
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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 man. There's…
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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, rather than…
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me;…
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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 my money.
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at…
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me…
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