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People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
— Roxane Gay
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
— Roxane Gay
We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.
— Roxane Gay
In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly.
— Roxane Gay
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
— Roxane Gay
I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
— Roxane Gay
Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.
— Roxane Gay
Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.
— Roxane Gay
I am mortified by my music choices.
— Roxane Gay
It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.
— Roxane Gay
ROXANE. One hundred men against one: you! - So, good bye! - We are the best of friends, are we not? CYRANO. Assuredly, we are!
— Edmond Rostand
If I am ever in the spotlight, I want to look good.
— Roxane Gay
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.
— Roxane Gay
Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
— Roxane Gay
Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
— Roxane Gay
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.
— Roxane Gay
Books are often far more than just books.
— Roxane Gay
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.
— Roxane Gay
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.
— Roxane Gay
I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
— Roxane Gay
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.
— Roxane Gay
In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.
— Roxane Gay
