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I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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Scrabble Player
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Omaha
Nebraska
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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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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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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
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I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.
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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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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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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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