--- title: "13 Our Quotes By Roxane Gay" description: "13 Our quotes by Roxane Gay. Plus more from Roxane Gay and more Our sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/roxane-gay-520_beach_long-walks-on-the-beach-are-the-supposed_1660651.png" --- > [Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/long-walks-on-the-beach-are-the-supposed-holy-grail-of-a-romantic/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/roxane-gay-520_beach_long-walks-on-the-beach-are-the-supposed_1660651.png) > [Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/margaret-sanger-didn-t-just-introduce-the-idea-of-birth-control-into/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b62/roxane-gay-520_birth_margaret-sanger-didn-t-just-introduce-th_3113568.png) > [We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/we-cannot-sway-extremists-with-rational-thought-or-with-our-ideas-of/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/roxane-gay-520_cannot_we-cannot-sway-extremists-with-rational_1839318.png) > [It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/it-sometimes-feels-like-the-workplace-is-immune-from-social-upheaval/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07d/roxane-gay-520_abandon_it-sometimes-feels-like-the-workplace-is_311348.png) > [Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/most-open-letters-undoubtedly-come-from-a-good-place-rising-out-of/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/roxane-gay-520_admittedly_most-open-letters-undoubtedly-come-from_2893685.png) > [The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/the-first-amendment-makes-it-clear-that-we-are-free-to-practice/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/roxane-gay-520_also_the-first-amendment-makes-it-clear-that_1338380.png) > [When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/when-i-was-a-child-my-parents-took-my-brothers-and-me-to-port-au/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/roxane-gay-520_about_when-i-was-a-child-my-parents-took-my-br_923403.png) > [I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-m-sick-of-hearing-thinking-and-talking-about-woody-allen/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/roxane-gay-520_about_i-m-sick-of-hearing-thinking-and-talking_662306.jpg) > [Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/placing-margaret-sanger-on-the-20-bill-will-remind-us-of-what-she-has/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/roxane-gay-520_bill_placing-margaret-sanger-on-the-20-bill-w_1908926.png) > [Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/something-outrageous-in-the-truest-sense-of-the-word-is-always/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e66/roxane-gay-520_about_something-outrageous-in-the-truest-sense_1000857.jpg) > [I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-think-one-of-the-most-important-things-we-can-do-as-feminists-is/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/roxane-gay-520_about_i-think-one-of-the-most-important-things_1413145.png) > [We like to think the best of ourselves. We like to believe we always say and do the right things. We like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/we-like-to-think-the-best-of-ourselves-we-like-to-believe-we-always/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75f/roxane-gay-520_always_we-like-to-think-the-best-of-ourselves-w_189968.png) > [We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/we-all-have-our-vanities-the-retouching-magazines-like-vogue-do-is/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c9/roxane-gay-520_apply_we-all-have-our-vanities-the-retouching_193147.png) ## Other authors on Our ## More by Roxane Gay > [“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/human-endurance-fascinates-me-probably-too-much-because-more-often/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“Being useful was a balm.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/being-useful-was-a-balm/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/no-woman-or-man-is-any-one-thing-and-the-men-in-my-stories-well-some/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-was-a-daydreamer-and-i-resented-being-pulled-out-of-my-daydreams-to/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/feminism-is-i-hope-a-way-to-a-better-future-for-everyone-who-inhabits/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/fiction-offers-escape-but-it-also-interrogates-the-world-we-live-in/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-ve-noticed-while-cooking-how-ingredients-in-their-individual-and/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-shouted-this-is-not-right-knowing-my-words-were-useless-there-s-no/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/most-of-my-favorite-tweets-go-completely-ignored-but-most-of-my/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/what-about-other-women-of-color-for-hispanic-and-latina-women-indian/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/there-has-been-and-there-will-continue-to-be-vigorous-discussions/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/writing-at-its-best-and-truest-can-offer-solace-and-salvation-for/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/i-knew-i-was-in-love-with-the-hunger-games-when-i-did-not-want-to-get/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/just-because-you-survive-something-does-not-mean-you-are-strong/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) > [“Celebrities understand the economy of thinness, and most of them are willing to participate in that economy, taking to social media, where they pose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/celebrities-understand-the-economy-of-thinness-and-most-of-them-are/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/our/roxane-gay/#itemlist", "name": "13 Our Quotes By Roxane Gay", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. 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