Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““The older we get, the more labels and categories we collect”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!” — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
I believe this generation, particularly the younger people don't really like labels. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
“At a young age I learned that you own labels by defying them, and defy them by owning them. I know that the final… — Abby Wambach Copy Share Image
“When you try to label anything, you are limiting possibilities. We need to think more about perceiving things in the big picture instead of… — Kathy L. Patrick Copy Share Image
“Labels are just labels, just handles to let us grasp things, pick them up, turn them over in our hands.” — Jason McIntyre Copy Share Image
Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share
“That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make… — 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 are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“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