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Kids Quotes by Junot Diaz
- I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
- I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
- I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
- 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…
- 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…
- My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one…
- You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
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