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 Read Quote
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. Buchi Emecheta Read Quote
I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman. Buchi Emecheta Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. Buchi Emecheta Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
