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Dominican Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 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,…
- For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some…
- I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
- I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
- 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 write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is…
- Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number...
- It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic…
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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… — Junot Diaz
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- I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States… — Sammy Sosa