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My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
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Omaha
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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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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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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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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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You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.
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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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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
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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 you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.
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Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.
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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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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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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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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 new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.
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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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Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
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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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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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Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
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