Buchi Emecheta Quotes

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

A people must have dignity and identity.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I've always felt very English.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty .... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

We see a small number of countries getting rich at the cost of impoverishment of a large number of other countries.

Ethnicity and tribe begin precisely where taxes and sovereignty end.

The world is not quite as inter-dependent as advertised. What happens in the poorest, most marginalized, and most dysfunctional places in the developing world only rarely comes back to bite those living in the wealthy world. What happens in failed states often stays in failed states.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.