“These kids didn’t know how to read so I got them dictionaries, and because they were too shy to discuss literacy in meetings, they would catch me walking across campus or in my office and whisper, “I need help reading.”… — 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
