Roxane Gay Quotes

“It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“I am an acquired taste.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I've struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I'm weird, because I live in my head.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“What a privilege it is to be able to say it’s hard to hear someone’s story.”
― Roxane Gay

“I want characters to do bad things and get away with their misdeeds. I want characters to think ugly thoughts and make ugly decisions. I want characters to make mistakes and put themselves first without apologizing for it.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I resisted feminism in my late teens and my twenties because i worried that feminism wouldn't allow me to be the mess of a woman i knew myself to be. But then i began to learn more about feminism. i learnt to separate feminism from Feminism or Feminists or the idea of an Essential Feminism - one true feminism to dominate all of womankind.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Mon corps est une cage. Mon corps est une que que je me suis fabriquée. Je suis encore en train de rechercher le moyen de m'en échapper.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up”
― The New York Times

“Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to sit at the adult table for the first time at Thanksgiving. I'm not sure which fork to use. My feet can't reach the floor.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist