 That's the message of a new children's book that shifts the image of talkative black girls from babbling troublemakers to witty conversationalists. It's called Ruby Renee Had So Much To Say, and author Ashley Iman lived it. I absolutely was Ruby Renee. I was very talkative, very curious as a child. I got some negative feedback that I was too loud, too talkative, too much, and just sucked. A former teacher, she also wrote the book so other teachers change how they see expressive black girls.