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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Hurt
Truth
Much

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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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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.
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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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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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I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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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.
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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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Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
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Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
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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?
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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.
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I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.
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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 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 can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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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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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I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.
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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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