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People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
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What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.
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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
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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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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.
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So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.
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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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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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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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I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.
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People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
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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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Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
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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 can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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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Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
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I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
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