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I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Better
Human
Humans
Abandoning
Without
Feminist
Trying
Woman
Good
Makes
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I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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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I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.
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Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
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Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.
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Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
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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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I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
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I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.
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If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.
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We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.
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My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
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I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American literature. All of these things are part of who I am and what I write.
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You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.
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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
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Books are often far more than just books.
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I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
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I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.
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We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.
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