You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,'… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill” — Roxane Gay Copy Share
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