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When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
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Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
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Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
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I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
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If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.
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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.
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Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
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When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
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Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
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I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.
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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.
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I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.
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When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.
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I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.
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Truth can hurt so very much.
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