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

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

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.

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

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

Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me because of sex.'

But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.