Because Quotes by Roxane Gay

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

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be…

— Roxane Gay

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

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on…

— Roxane Gay

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

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

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

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

— Roxane Gay

I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind…

— Roxane Gay

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

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast.…

— Roxane Gay

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

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of…

— Roxane Gay

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

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