🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲
@CandiceC_W
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Champion + Queenie writer + showrunner | Author of Sunday Times bestselling PEOPLE PERSON + Book of the Year Award winning QUEENIE 👑 | @Nelle_Andrew | @CKCK42
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BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 👑 And the FIRST Black AUTHOR to win it let alone Black WOMAN since the prize BEGAN in 1994? Sorry for all the caps but what are you telling meee #Nibbies
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RT @ShakiraNewton: Sleep on this show at your own peril. I’m telling you. I was overwhelmed with how entertained and affirmed it made me….
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I suspect this is the reason why⚪️ people love that book.
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This you? Come chat to me when your books are available in stores
I had such high hopes for this book, based on its vibrant cover. But I couldn't get over how self-sabotaging she was and how much she degraded herself for a white man who clearly hated her.
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RT @latimesfob: This Sunday, join us for the world premiere screening of @Hulu’s #Queenie based on the bestselling novel by @candicec_w! Al….
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‘The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do’ — Toni Morrison.
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RT @theresa_lola: BOOK COVER REVEAL. Here is my grandfather and I, circa 1994, in Lagos, Nigeria at my naming ceremony! ❤️. I’m so honoured….
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RT @ClashRobin: Sad to hear that @CandiceC_W’s wonderful Champion isn’t returning for a second series but she ties up the loose ends on thi….
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RT @LazarusKumi: “He’s not racist, he does a lot of business in Jamaica”. You know who else did business in Jamaica a few hundred years ago?.
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“It’s not as good as her dying”. It’s NOT as GOOD as her DYING.
"Diane Abbott need to be shot. She’s stupid. If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It’s not as good as her dying. It would be much better if she died. She’s consuming resource. She’s eating food that other people could eat. You know?" - Hester.
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RT @nattykasambala: again I ask…. if explicitly calling out a hate for the entire race and gender of a person is not gender or race-based,….
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RT @benelombe: So SHIFTERS @bushtheatre is sold out. Y'ALL DID THAT. The Lovers. The Dreamers. The Romantics. And our BLACK PEOPLE. They st….
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RT @IAMANITABAKER: The Simplicity of this Photo, was *Of Service* to The Muse/Not Me. And, STILL Serves. Humility & Gratitude to God. Fo….
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