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

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 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.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

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.

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.