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Being Quotes by Junot Diaz
- I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
- I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
- Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
- 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 mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than…
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness…
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
- One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if…
- The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and…
- The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes…
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