You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — 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
