Junot Diaz

The only way out is in.

— Junot Diaz

“Los que menos corren, vuelan”

— Junot Diaz

“A woman warmer than the air around her”

— Junot Díaz

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

Privilege does not operate without silence.

— Junot Diaz

The half-life of love is forever.

— Junot Díaz

“Entonces cállate la fucking boca.”

— Junot Díaz

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

— Junot Diaz

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

— Junot Diaz

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

— Junot Diaz

“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.”

— Junot Díaz

“My brother had never been the most rational of agents, but this one was the ill zinger.”

— Junot Díaz

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

— Junot Diaz

“Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.”

— Junot Díaz

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

— Junot Diaz

“You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside…

— Junot Díaz

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your…

— Junot Diaz

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

— Junot Diaz

“In your heart you thought she would hate you—that they would all hate you. I don’t hate you. Tú eres mi hombre,…

— Junot Díaz

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

— Junot Diaz

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

— Junot Diaz

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't…

— Junot Díaz

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

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both.…

— Junot Diaz

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty…

— Junot Diaz

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're…

— Junot Diaz

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community,…

— Junot Diaz

“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled…

— Junot Díaz

“Ana Iris perguntou-me se eu o amava e eu falei-lhe das lâmpadas na minha antiga casa na capital, que estavam sempre a…

— Junot Díaz

“Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or…

— Junot Díaz

“They walked him into the cane and then turned him around. He tried to stand bravely... They looked at Oscar and he…

— Junot Díaz

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each…

— Junot Diaz

“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

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a…

— Junot Diaz

“I wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell in love over…

— Junot Díaz

“You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not…

— Junot Díaz

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,…

— Junot Diaz