Jacquie Abram > Jacquie's Quotes

“I'm fighting racism one book at a time to open minds and change hearts.”
― Jacquie Abram, HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job

“On my canvas of life, you bring colors of love and joy,
Just like in winters,
The setting sun brings beams of red and purple to the sky.”
― Hareem Ch, Muse Buzz

“Before she was your momma, girl, she was my wife and I told her I didn't want your Blackity Black *ss! Nobody wants ya. I don't want ya! Your real momma didn't want ya! And from what I hear, ya husband don't want ya either!”
― Jacquie Abram, Hush Money: The Cost of Being Black In Corporate America

“When you were on vacation, Ebony, she brought a box of king size chocolate bars to the campus management meeting, and told everyone to help themselves. So, everyone did. But when I opened the wrapper, and put the chocolate in my mouth, before I bit it, she started snickering and said, 'I knew you'd like having a big, chocolate bar in your mouth,' and I knew exactly what she meant, and so did everyone else by the look on their faces.”
― Jacquie Abram, HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job

“The experience of slavery is the bedrock on which Caribbean society has been founded.”
― Sharon Hurley Hall, Exploring Shadeism