Jamaican Authorican Quotes

“The most direct way that I can define advantage in our society—is that it's an allowable difference in the margin of error necessary to succeed.

You could have two people, seemingly side by side, while one is there because they scraped and clawed and rarely misstepped, while the other person tripped their way to the same position.

For the disadvantaged are not allowed to speak on it or talk about their struggles to get where they are at.
What you did with that disadvantage has no bearing on whether it existed or not.
People like myself have to face obstacles but are also given a tiny margin of error…
We are not allowed to fail or to make mistakes.”
― Crystal Evans, Blood Money: The Scammer and The Ex-slave Owner