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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American Writer
Love Me People Think Women You
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I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control. Roxane Gay
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What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be. Roxane Gay
Me Worries America Different Might Us Americas Ever
We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks. Roxane Gay
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If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals. Roxane Gay
Great Surrender Eyes Grace Guilt Willingness Would Small Vogue Vast Feel Over Ideals Vulnerability Because Judging Audience Were Being Want Pages Many Exposed Ever Amount Image
If I am ever in the spotlight, I want to look good. Roxane Gay
Good Look Spotlight Am Want Ever
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
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That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned. Roxane Gay
Racism Way About Unquestioned Allowed Freely Always How Encouraged Often Spaces Public Fascinating Flourish
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
Compassion Care Criticism Assumption Everyone Everything Critics Finite Simply Because Odd Cultural Commenting
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
Financial Matter Diversity Think Enough Others Those Imperative Advertiser Because Ignore Lives
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent. Roxane Gay
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I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy. Roxane Gay
Women Disagree Young Idea Make Without Which Autonomy Young Women Choices Acting Reject
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor. Roxane Gay
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In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone. Roxane Gay
Truth Care Feminism About More Accessible Making dont Care Anyone
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm. Roxane Gay
Love Beautiful Strange Ugly Sense Nothing Somehow Hot Makes How Still Place Rhythm Florida Here
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one. Roxane Gay
Happy Marriage Parents Has-Been Married See Been Years
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. Roxane Gay
Thought Our Extremists We Cannot Rational Wrong Ideas Cannot Sway Right Right And Wrong
We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant. Roxane Gay
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We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity. Roxane Gay
Witness Move On Worst More Atrocity Bear Brutality Witnessed Always Move Human Then Next
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. Roxane Gay
Words Matter Having Put Doctrine How Intellectuals Often Public Treated Position
Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it. Roxane Gay
Hope Welcome Herself Would Critique Above Beyonce Feminist
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
Love God Faith Religion Wonderful Try Parents Faithful Catholic Understand Were Taught Us Who Deeply Raised
For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment. Roxane Gay
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