Buchi Emecheta Quotes
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.

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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
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I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
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Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
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After my son get married, finally I can focus on improving the economy of Taiwan
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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.