Best Roxane Gay Quotes
- For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment. Any
- Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable. Comfortable
- I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist. Began
- When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend… Choices
- We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the… Black
- 2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a… Every Year
- Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight… Bill
- When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country… Ancestors
- In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you. All
- Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where… All
- I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily… Charming
- I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true… Advanced
- A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages… Always Intensely
- I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a… Appreciate
- If I am ever in the spotlight, I want to look good. Good
- In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly. Body
- After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. Bombings
- No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly. Critics
- There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment. Advertiser
- It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin… Age
- The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while… Audience
- Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to… Addressed
- I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy. Acting
- I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. Bad
- This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve. Achieve