I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am,… — 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
I think that distance is good for some people for certain projects. I mean this is sort of a dynamic question. Some… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful… — 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
I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community,… — 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
