14 Quotes by Candice Carty-Williams

It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing.

Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met.

[W]hen my little girl was born, I put my finger in her tiny hand, and she opened her eyes and squeezed it so tightly. And I looked at her, and I realized that she was more powerful than any delicate princess I'd read about. I'd just given birth to a queen. A girl who would grow up to be strong and brave. So I called her Queenie.

That’s the thing about people who love to play devil’s advocate!’ I shouted. ‘There’s no emotional involvement in it for you, there’s nothing at stake!

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.

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?

Being brave isn’t the same as being okay.

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