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

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.

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.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Buy stocks where the outlook is not good.