Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.
Roxane Gay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Hard
Obligation
Kind
Mistakes
People
Beyond
Color
Learning
Mistake
Working
Best
More quotes by Roxane Gay
When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that as beautiful, which it is, and that's incredibly frustrating, so for every gain or benefit that the internet offers there is a liability.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
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
I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.
Roxane Gay
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?
Roxane Gay
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
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
Books are often far more than just books.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
Roxane Gay
My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
Roxane Gay
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
Roxane Gay
Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
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.
Roxane Gay
