I’ll give you what I’ve managed to unearth and the rest…

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican…

— Junot Diaz

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love…

— Junot Diaz

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year…

— Junot Diaz

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken…

— Junot Diaz

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it…

— Junot Diaz

“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.…

— Junot Díaz

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

— Junot Díaz

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that…

— Junot Diaz

“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran…

— Junot Díaz

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree…

— Junot Diaz

“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own…

— Junot Díaz

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

— Junot Diaz

“If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.”

— Junot Díaz

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

— Junot Diaz