10 Inspiring quotes from the brilliant novelist

Born on the 21st of July 1944, Buchi Emecheta, the Nigerian trailblazing Novelist, is 71 today! Considered by many to be one of the most important female African writers, she is greatly respected and admired for her creative and narrative writing about African women's experiences in Africa and in Great Britain.

Read 12 Beautiful and inspiring quotes from the Nobel Laureate

She is considered a respected voice for arts and women issues and her themes of racism, discrimination, child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honors, including being selected as one of the Best British Young Writers in 1983 and an Order of the British Empire in 2005.

Here are some quotes from this beautiful and inspiring woman.

1. “A man is never ugly".”

2. "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."

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

4. "A hungry man is an angry one."

5. “In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them,looks after them when they are small;but in the actual help on the farm ,the upholding of the family name,all belong to the father.”

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

7. "I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever."

8. "I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator."

9. "I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story."

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