You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what… — Junot Diaz 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
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — 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
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 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 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
You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary… — Junot Diaz 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
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves — 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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