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
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
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means… — 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
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
...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his… — 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
My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The body is what reminds us on a daily basis that we're human. The body defies us, it betrays us, we have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's… — 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
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
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what… — 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
