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

- Roxane Gay

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

- Roxane Gay

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

- Roxane Gay

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.

- Roxane Gay

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

- Roxane Gay

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

- Roxane Gay

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through differ…

- Roxane Gay

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.

- Roxane Gay

I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a lit…

- Roxane Gay