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

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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