Roxane Gay Quotes

Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

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.

I never imagined any of the success I am currently experiencing.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that as beautiful, which it is, and that's incredibly frustrating, so for every gain or benefit that the internet offers there is a liability.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

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."

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.

Truth can hurt so very much.