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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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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
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Omaha
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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 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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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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Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
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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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I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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.
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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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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
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The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.
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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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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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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 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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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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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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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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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 approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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