People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,'… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing… — 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
