In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image