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

I replied, “God alone knows how much I have suffered; and He, I trust, will forgive me. If I am permitted to have my children, I intend to be a good mother, and to live in such a manner that people cannot treat me with contempt.

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

Nnaife did not realise that Dr Meers's laughter was inspired by that type of wickedness that reduces any man, white or black, intelligent or not, to a new low; lower than the basest of animals, for animals at least respected each other's feelings, each other's dignity.