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
In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You… — 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 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
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train… — 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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