I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's… — 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
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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
For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably… — 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
