I ran through these streets and thought, “This is a Haiti…

“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

“Being useful was a balm.”

— Roxane Gay

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

“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.”

— Roxane Gay

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

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

— Roxane Gay

“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

“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

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

“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

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

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill”

— Roxane Gay

“Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong.”

— Roxane Gay

“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