Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Girl children are not safe in a world where there are men. They need to learn to be strong. There” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“At some point, we have to stop selling every black child in this country the idea that he or she only needs… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Fix the Family, a conservative, Catholic “family values” organization, published a list of reasons why families should not send their daughters to… — 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
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“These kids didn’t know how to read so I got them dictionaries, and because they were too shy to discuss literacy in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books… — 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 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
“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 Image
“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
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