I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — 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
![“[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf1/junot-diaz-531_burn-out_immigrating-didn-t-burn-out-my-desire-to_847497.jpg)
