Junot Diaz Quotes

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• Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
• My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
• My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
• New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
• 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
• Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
• Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'
• Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
• Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
• We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest…
• When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from…
• When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do.…
• You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
• I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But…
• We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and,…
• Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to…
• 'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of…
• I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the…
• I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
• I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story…

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