Roxane Gay Quotes

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

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StarsLiveSkySchoolColleagues

I love looking back at my old pictures and pictures of my grandma and my mom and see how they expressed themselves at different parts of their lives, and it just tells an interesting story, so why not play around?

Jillian Hervey

LoveMomLooking BackLookingStory

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

John McCain

TrainingI AmNeedChiefCommander

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.

Sun Myung Moon

YouSituationMatterFollowMayHow

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

Steven Berkoff

WorkLostPraiseCriticsHearing

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Steven Tyler

SoulMy SoulRocksSomethingGet

I expect The Rock would want to keep his pretty face intact for Hollywood. He better stay away from me in the ring. But honestly, anybody who wants to get into the ring with me and take the world title, just try!

Roman Reigns

MeWorldFaceBetterWantRock

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

Martin O'Malley

PovertyDangerousExtremeExtremely

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

ManDoorPushLongWillRoom

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

Logic

I AmPeopleMeProudHellYou

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Lane

HomeDrivePresentParentNiceMore

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

Dennis Banks

RunDifferentRunningCanadianLeast

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know that there's a diversity problem.

Christine Tsai

DiversityPrisonProblemEnoughYou

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