There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on… — 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
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
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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“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 Image
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 Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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 Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
