Best 7 quotes of Candice Carty-williams on MyQuotes

Being brave isn’t the same as being okay.

CAN YOU TURN THAT OFF, GRANDMA?’ I shouted down. ‘YOU KNOW I AM STRUGGLING.’ There was a long pause. ‘Who yuh tink yuh talking to?’ my grandmother shouted back. ‘Yuh tink say you can be DJ inna my house cause of a man?

Is this what growing into an adult woman is—having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?

It's not putting black lives on a pedestal, I don't even know what that means," I said, my heart beating fast. "It's saying that black lives, at this point, and historically, do not, and have not mattered, and that they should!" I looked first at Gina, then around the room to see if anyone was going to back me up. Instead, I was met with what I'd been trying to pretend hadn't always been a room full of white not-quite-liberals whose opinions, like their money, had been inherited.

I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.

My eyes must spend at least fifty per cent of any given day rolled to the back of my head.

Why are people always complaining about the dead period between Christmas and the New Year? It’s complete bliss.