Buchi Emecheta Quotes

A hungry man is an angry one.
Buchi Emecheta

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

Money, Book, Different

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

Women, History, Black

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
Buchi Emecheta

Two, Young, Stay

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
Buchi Emecheta

Rather, Whatever, Somebody

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

Work, Women, Woman

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

Today, Black, Problems

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Buchi Emecheta

Hate, Bad, 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

Children, Writing, Another

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

Important, Person, Speak

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Buchi Emecheta

Romantic, Husband, Woman

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Born: July 21, 1944

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