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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin. — 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
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
When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it… — 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
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 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
The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. — 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
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — 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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