People Quotes by Junot Diaz

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

— Junot Diaz

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

— Junot Diaz

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

— Junot Diaz

The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut.

— Junot Diaz

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

— Junot Diaz

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

— Junot Diaz

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

— Junot Diaz

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they…

— Junot Diaz

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on…

— Junot Diaz

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

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

— Junot Diaz

“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own…

— Junot Díaz

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

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

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It…

— Junot Diaz

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

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

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

We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and…

— Junot Diaz

I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight.…

— Junot Diaz

[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

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

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

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

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

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way…

— Junot Diaz

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

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

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

— Junot Diaz

[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

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

— Junot Diaz

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

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.…

— Junot Diaz

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to…

— Junot Diaz

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

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down…

— Junot Diaz

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

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

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