Roxane Gay

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix…

— Roxane Gay

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

“Intellectually, I do not equate thinness with happiness. I could wake up thin tomorrow and I would still carry the same baggage…

— Roxane Gay

Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a…

— Roxane Gay

“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need…

— Roxane Gay

“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.” This is a…

— Roxane Gay

“The older I get the less the world makes sense.” “I”

— Roxane Gay

“I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much intelligence in…

— Roxane Gay

“And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had…

— Roxane Gay

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

— Roxane Gay

“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege,…

— Roxane Gay

“I had (and have?) this void, this cavern of loneliness inside me that I have spent my whole life trying to fill.…

— Roxane Gay

“I made my choice. There is nothing you cannot do when you are no one.”

— Roxane Gay

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an…

— Roxane Gay

“I have presence, I am told. I take up space. I intimidate. I do not want to take up space. I want…

— Roxane Gay

“This is a show about unruly bodies that must be disciplined by any means necessary, so that through that discipline, the obese…

— Roxane Gay

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

— Roxane Gay

I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why…

— Roxane Gay

When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or…

— Roxane Gay

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight…

— Roxane Gay

“I wanted to tell him I saw the exact same things he did, that this country was a lot for anyone to…

— Roxane Gay

“This world and its unwillingness to accept and accommodate me are the problem. But I suspect it is more likely that I…

— Roxane Gay

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

— Roxane Gay

“I am nowhere near as brave as people believe me to be. As a writer, armed with words, I can do anything,…

— Roxane Gay

“These reactions hurt, for so many reasons. They illustrate how little people think of fat people, how they assume we are neither…

— Roxane Gay