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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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"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."
"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."
"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."
"The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it."
"In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today."
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