For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I have a job I’m pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of working with. My colleagues are powerful and intelligent and kind. The cost of living is low, the prairie is wide, and on clear nights, I can see all the stars in the sky above. Roxane Gay Read Quote
We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists. Roxane Gay Read Quote
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships – fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love. Roxane Gay Read Quote
There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment. Roxane Gay Read Quote
