For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“How much English do you know? None, Papi said after a moment. Eulalio shook his head. Papi met Eulalio last and liked… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Casa Hatüey was named Hatüey because in Times Past it supposedly had been owned by a descendant of the priest who tried… — Junot Díaz 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
“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — 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
