Roxane Gay Quotes - Page 2

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• I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.

  Roxane Gay

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

  Roxane Gay

  Needs, Matter, Assuming

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

  Roxane Gay

  Mean, Acceptance, Doe

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don’t want to be involved with an asshole who’s used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.

  Roxane Gay

  Sex, Flirting, Emotional

  "Bad Feminist: Essays". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.

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• Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

  Roxane Gay

  Arbitrary, Worthy, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

  Roxane Gay

  Mean, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

  Roxane Gay

  Past, People, Want

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• If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

  Roxane Gay

  Relax, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for fatness. You're a failure, because only a lazy person, only a dumb person, would allow themselves to get into this situation. It's appalling that this is the mindset. People generally treat fat people like we don't know anything about anything. It's incredibly demeaning. And incredibly frustrating.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Dumb, Lazy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

  Roxane Gay

  Past, Looks, Persons

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

  Roxane Gay

  Diversity, Stories, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

  Roxane Gay

  Loss, Interesting, Focus

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would love to see more acknowledgement of how challenging it is to feel positive about fatness when you can't find clothing. When there literally is not something made for your body. Nobody ever talks about that; all those fat girl clothes swaps and stuff are for a very specific kind of fat girl. If I was Lane Bryant fat, I would be joyful about fatness.

  Roxane Gay

  Girl, Challenges, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

  Roxane Gay

  Reflection, Men, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

  Roxane Gay

  Responsibility, Unique, Color

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

  Roxane Gay

  Ambition, Trying, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

  Roxane Gay

  Phones, Play, Important

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or scene to feel necessary and organic. I approach the writing of others in much the same way while always working to preserve the writer's voice. To allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I tell myself no one is going to read my work. There's no way I could put myself out there otherwise.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Fit, Vulnerable

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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

  Roxane Gay

  Fun, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Challenges, Helping

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

  Roxane Gay

  Self, Trying, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Truth can hurt so very much.

  Roxane Gay

  Hurt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

  Roxane Gay

  Answers, Violence

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• I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.

  Roxane Gay

  Tricks, Stills, I Can

  Source: therumpus.net

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