"An uneducated person has little chance of happiness."

"Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and plan…"

"Relatives watching wanted and expected me to break down and cry, thereby devaluing my inner sorrow."

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

"I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I hav…"

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

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

"But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We, women, subscribe to that law more than anyone. Unt…"

"Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience."

"I thought at one time I would be thrown out. But I was not."