“What a privilege it is to be able to say it’s hard to hear someone’s story.” — 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
“When people wield accusations of privilege, more often than not, they want to be heard and seen. Their need is acute, if… — 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
“We tend to believe that accusations of privilege imply we have it easy, which we resent because life is hard for nearly… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege,… — 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
“Too many people have become self-appointed privilege police, patrolling the halls of discourse, ready to remind people of their privilege whether those… — 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
“Celebrities understand the economy of thinness, and most of them are willing to participate in that economy, taking to social media, where they pose… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
