People Quotes by Roxane Gay

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

— Roxane Gay

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

— Roxane Gay

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

— Roxane Gay

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

— Roxane Gay

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

— Roxane Gay

People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

— Roxane Gay

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

— Roxane Gay

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

— Roxane Gay

2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no…

— Roxane Gay

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their…

— Roxane Gay

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act…

— Roxane Gay

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

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

I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not…

— Roxane Gay

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that…

— Roxane Gay

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and…

— Roxane Gay

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

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

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to…

— Roxane Gay

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't…

— Roxane Gay

Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that…

— Roxane Gay

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown…

— Roxane Gay

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and…

— Roxane Gay

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's…

— Roxane Gay

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

— Roxane Gay

“You are the best of our people, but you are not yet good enough.”

— Roxane Gay

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time…

— Roxane Gay

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

The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never…

— Roxane Gay

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement…

— Roxane Gay

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

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are…

— Roxane Gay

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

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is…

— Roxane Gay

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

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people…

— Roxane Gay

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

Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price.…

— Roxane Gay

The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American…

— Roxane Gay