Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

A hungry man is an angry one.

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

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 both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

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.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.

He sleeps with you?""Robert?"Stacey rolled her eyes at

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity?

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

When you change your diet, you can change your entire physiology and you can heal

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.