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

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.

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.

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

Faith is a gift of God.

It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.