1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay photo

Roxane Gay Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Gérard spends his days thinking about the many reasons he hates America that include but are not limited to the people, the weather, having to drive everywhere and having to go to school every day.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: first lines of books, America
“Progress is not kind and human nature cannot resist the lure of possibility.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Progress, Human Nature
“He is such a beautiful man, but I do not tell him this. He would take it the wrong way. It is a strange thing in some men, this fear of their own beauty.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Men, Relationships, Touch, Beautiful People
“I don’t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.”
— Roxane Gay, Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, protest, Movement, black lives, black lives matter organization, nyt, racism, Injustice
“You hate yourself for it, but you crave the stranger’s unwanted touch because the fight left in you is a reminder that you haven’t been broken. You haven’t been broken.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Stranger, Touch, Feeling
“Freedom, it seems, has a price. We are defined by what we are not and what we do not have.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Freedom
“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Family History, Sorrow, Personal History, Ancestors
“It is always when I am leaving work that I realize what an odd country Haiti is, with the Internet, computers, fax machines and photocopiers in offices and the people who use them living in shacks with the barest of amenities. We are a people living in two different times.”
— Roxane Gay, Ayiti
Tagged: Haiti, Two Times, Different Worlds
loading next page...