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

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

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.'

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

A hungry man is an angry one.

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

I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as well and am raising them. A lot of women only stay in their marriages because of the children so seeing me on my own annoys them.