It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?' — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for… — 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
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — 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
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down… — 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
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
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really… — Junot Diaz 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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice,… — 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
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![“For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e4d/junot-diaz-531_battle_for-me-the-battle-isn-t-hillary-clinton_2524090.jpg)
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![“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 for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76a/junot-diaz-531_color_there-s-a-long-term-tradition-of-white-s_1384925.jpg)
![“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/256/junot-diaz-531_blame_donald-trump-is-explained-with-the-inter_2934593.jpg)
![“[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/498/junot-diaz-531_america_donald-trump-is-taking-america-s-dirty-l_490429.jpg)
![“I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ea/junot-diaz-531_dominican-republic_i-came-up-under-ronald-reagan-and-under_2170160.jpg)
![“I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when that curtain closes. But let's keep it real honest here: They are voting for a xenophobic, anti-Latino white supremacist - don't try to pretty it up. This is now the age when people want to be…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e0/junot-diaz-531_age_i-know-a-number-of-people-who-from-the-c_1454503.jpg)
