When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.

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

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

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.

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.