I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The… — 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
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
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again.… — 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
If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you… — 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
When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker… — 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 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
Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is.… — 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 think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in… — 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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