“When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.” PeopleStrongBlackEnglandExpectedShockBlack PeopleJaneAusten Author:Buchi Emecheta
“I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as well and am raising them. A lot of women only stay in their marriages because of the children so seeing me on my own annoys them.” IfsMenWellsChildrenMy OwnSeeingForgivingThreatAnnoyingForgive Me Author:Buchi Emecheta
“Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.” MenShouldChildrenMomentsProblemConceptsFeministPlus Author:Buchi Emecheta
“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.'” MenPersonsImportantSex Author:Buchi Emecheta
“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.” UsedKnownRocksPopsUsed To BeLoudArtificialNoveltyPointlessPop MusicRock MusicDiversion Author:Paul Morley
“Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.” MoralMassMusic IsPopsConnectedLackingFanaticismPop MusicEnchantmentClumsyDeceitfulRigour Author:Paul Morley
“Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.” IdeasHelpingEnergyAudienceEnvironmentResourcesPopsReleasePop MusicConfinement Author:Paul Morley
“I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDreamInspireLimitsPopsPursueNightmareDivisionLinksAssociationIrrelevantRestrictionPop MusicMockReadinessUnstableMobility Author:Paul Morley
“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.” DesireStarsAttentionStupidPopsChainsThriveHarshWickednessRidiculeDiscontentPop MusicEccentricity Author:Paul Morley