Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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I just wanted to let other people know that it’s not that I woke up one day and thought, I’m going to be a writer. And – boom! – I was a writer! And – boom! – then I was a children’s laureate! And so on, as if it all landed in my lap. I wrote the autobiography because I just really wanted to talk about the truth of how I got to those moments in my life. Each book was full of descriptions of characters with pale skin, milky skin, porcelain skin, alabaster skin, which blushed and flushed and turned red, and I would skim over those sentences. Such descriptions took me out of whatever story I was reading, not because the stories contained white protagonists but because all the stories I read featured white protagonists. I was nowhere. By extension I was nothing. My place in this world was not deemed worthy of recognition, recording, exploration or even comment. That’s how it felt at the time. Don’t miss the chance to hear her, as she shares her own life lessons, the impetus behind her biggest books, and a few writing tips too!For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). Yeah, I think so. You’re so wrapped up in the grief of it and going through the bereavement process. It’s very much something that my husband and I went through, and you don’t appreciate that others have gone through it too and could offer insight and support. Or just that hand on the shoulder or a smile to say, I know exactly what you’re going through. And it means such a lot. Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection Dare to be Different, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4021-7 For step-free access from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road off Belvedere Road to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating (excluding rows A to C) and wheelchair spaces in the Rear Stalls, plus Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and the Purcell Room, please use the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. This memoir made me so angry. There are so many injustices she has faced - especially when it comes to racism within the medical system. I raged for her, and felt crushed for her... it's one worth reading. If anything, to see how this queen rose above it all.

It absolutely was something I wanted to get behind. I have nothing but respect for Michael [Stormzy]; he’s amazing. I love the way he’s done his own thing and not sought permission from anybody. So all power to him. Plus, the fact that I was in his video – Mel Made Me Do It – which astounded my daughter! If that sounds like a mutual love-in, I’m good with that. But that said, I have to stress, I do not have his digits. So for all those people out there saying, “Oh, could you ask Stormzy this?”: it’s not going to happen! For more than 30 years, her books have helped to shape British culture and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK and are already undisputed classics of 21st-century children's literature.

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Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses.

imagine… Douglas Stuart ( w/t) is a BBC Studios production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Alan Yentob is the Series Editor, Executive Producer is Tanya Hudson and the Producer/ Director is Linda Sands. It was commissioned for BBC Arts by Mark Bell. I loved books that took me to new places and spaces, that let me walk in the shoes of others who were different to me. I found no books that allowed me to walk in the shoes of those like me. But stories continued to be my passport away from parental quarrels and sibling arguments and doors slamming and feeling lonely. The anger at racism (and classism) that inspired those books runs like a thread through this one. Crass colleagues, bigoted customs officers, unimaginative librarians, social media white supremacists – they’re all here. She doesn’t forget a personal insult, but she sees the bigger picture too – writing with especial fierceness about Brexit, the hostile environment policy, and the white media’s reporting of the Brixton riots and the Stephen Lawrence case. She reveals, I think for the first time, that she turned down a CBE in the wake of the Windrush scandal – and she reprints here her starchy letter saying in no uncertain terms why.

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This book is an account of that journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children's laureateship. It is an illuminating, inspiring and empowering account of the power of words to change lives, and the extraordinary life story of one of the world's greatest writers.