I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — 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
Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When… — 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
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 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
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
I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast.… — 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
“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
