After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. Roxane Gay Read Quote
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we’re always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and ‘think pieces’ about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can. Roxane Gay Read Quote
I don’t want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests. Roxane Gay Read Quote
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone – commenting on everything simply because they can. That’s not what cultural criticism is. Roxane Gay Read Quote
When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don’t think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter. Roxane Gay Read Quote
Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one. Roxane Gay Read Quote
It’s so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there’s truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there’s so much more. There are multiple truths. Roxane Gay Read Quote
