Lupita Nyong'o posts tribute to Chadwick Boseman

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For the beloved #ChadwickBoseman. #TakeYourTimeButDontWasteYourTime pic.twitter.com/PZ6opeoYUl
- Lupita Nyong'o (@Lupita_Nyongo) September 8, 2020

I write these words from a place of hopelessness, to honor a man who had great hope. I am struggling to think and speak about my friend, Chadwick Boseman, in the past tense. It doesn't make sense. The

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[anthknee]

❤️

[flyingpigs_live]

Beautiful and heartbreaking 😭

[kaiserschmarrn]

Beautifully written. It still seems surreal that he's gone.

[lyra_loo]

I'm still so goddamn sad. I hate this. it's so unfair

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[the rest of the text in the tweet]Chadwick was a man who made the most of his time, and somehow also managed to take his time. I didn't know him for long, but he had a profound effect on me in the time I did. When we came together to make Black Panther, I remember being struck by his quiet, powerful presence. He had no airs about him, but there was a higher frequency that he seemed to operate from. You get the sense that he was fully present and also somehow fully aware of things in the distant future. As a result, I noticed that Chadwick never seemed rushed! He commanded his time with ease