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
When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a… — 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
What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her… — 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
