The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy. — 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
