Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train… — 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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — 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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used… — Junot Díaz 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. — Junot Diaz Copy Share
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