Famous Roxane Gay Quotes

  • I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay

    I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release.– Roxane Gay

  • I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay

    I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties.– Roxane Gay

  • Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay

    Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status– Roxane Gay

  • To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay

    To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.– Roxane Gay

  • Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay

    Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.– Roxane Gay

  • Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.– Roxane Gay

  • If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human. – Roxane Gay

    If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human.– Roxane Gay

  • On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay

    On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure.– Roxane Gay

  • Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little. – Roxane Gay

    Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little.– Roxane Gay

  • When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay

    When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example.– Roxane Gay