Buchi Emecheta Quotes

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?

Buchi Emecheta

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.

Buchi Emecheta

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Buchi Emecheta