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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
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Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
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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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Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
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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 approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
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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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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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I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
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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 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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Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
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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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Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.
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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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I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
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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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Truth can hurt so very much.
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