“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Everyone was so worried about me when I broke my ankle and it confused me. I have a huge, loving family and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Because I read so much, I was a romantic in my heart of hearts, but my desire to be part of a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I deny myself gentler kinds of affection—to touch or be kindly touched—as if that is a pleasure a body like mine does… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“She didn't care if he was telling the truth. Milly felt nothing but she was very good at making men think otherwise.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to 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
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I am not good at romantic interactions that aren’t furtive and kind of sleazy. I don’t know how to ask someone on… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I wanted that kind of steady, true love for myself, and I wanted a relationship where I could be independent but loved… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less… — 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
