Junot Diaz Quotes

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• Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human,…
• The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
• The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.
• Character is the plot in many ways
• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You…
• As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.
• The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
• You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of…
• If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
• Privilege does not operate without silence.
• Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers…
• I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
• I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
• I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
• I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
• A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone…
• Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful…
• Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most…
• 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide…
• Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either…

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