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
“One night, a couple of weeks before school started--they must have though I was asleep--Nilda started telling Rafa about her plans for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was one of those… — Junot Díaz 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
“We’re committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that’s hard for us to recognise,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Maybe we were together some other time. I can’t think when, I said. You tried not to look at me. Maybe five… — Junot Díaz 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
It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved, that we would be in bed… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction… — 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
