Junot Diaz

Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what…

— Junot Diaz

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in…

— Junot Diaz

“And the roaches. The roaches were so bold in his flat that turning on the lights did not startle them. They waved…

— Junot Díaz

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell,…

— 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

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking…

— Junot Diaz

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New…

— Junot Diaz

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term…

— Junot Diaz

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to…

— Junot Diaz

“He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves.”

— Junot Díaz

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not…

— Junot Diaz

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

— Junot Diaz

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any…

— Junot Diaz

“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the…

— Junot Díaz

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time…

— Junot Diaz

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Junot Diaz

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its…

— Junot Diaz

“...her other paramour was a student at the UASD -- one of those City College types who's been in school eleven years…

— Junot Diaz

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

— Junot Diaz

Anger has a way of returning.

— Junot Diaz

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

— Junot Diaz

“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the day’s light, her breasts like sunsets…

— Junot Díaz

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

— Junot Diaz