Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““Being useful was a balm.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.” — Various Copy Share Image
“Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.” — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
“...but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“for when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“By being virtually useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.” — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“I had a great deal of respect for his straightforward nature, and for his willingness to pick people up by the throat. It seemed… — Seanan McGuire 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
“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
