Buchi Emecheta Quotes


"In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: People, Problems, Today)

"I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: Work, Women, Woman)

"I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: Children, Kitchen, Now, Value, Writing)

"A hungry man is an angry one."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: Man)

"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: History, Women, World)

"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."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: People, Writer)