Buchi Emecheta Quotes

So, sorry as she was for making a fool out of an old doctor, this was just one of the cases where honesty would not have been the best policy.

Then the thought suddenly struck her. Yes, she would go to school.

This old friend of Adah's paid for the taxi that took her home from Camden Town because he thought she was still with her husband.

Hunger drove Francis to work as a clerical officer in the post office. Adah's hopes rose. This might save the marriage after all.

They were going to get the room they were asking for. Pa Noble was too old for Sue.

London, having killed Adah's congregational God, created instead a personal God who loomed large and really alive.

Her children were going to be different. They were all going to be black, they were going to enjoy being black, be proud of being black, a black of a different breed.

Did she not feel totally fulfilled when she had completed the manuscript, just as if it were another baby she had had?

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why, then did they claim to be superior?

You must know, my dear young lady, that in Lagos you may be a million publicity officers for the Americans; you may be earning a million pounds a day; you may have hundreds of servants: you may be living like an elite, but the day you land in England, you are a second-class citizen.”

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.

Typical Igbo psychology; men never do wrong, only the women; they have to beg for forgiveness, because they are bought, paid for and must remain like that, silent, obedient slaves.

The concept of whiteness could cover a multitude of sins.

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.