Humor Quote by Junot Diaz

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…

— Junot Diaz

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love…

— Junot Diaz

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year…

— Junot Diaz

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken…

— Junot Diaz

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it…

— Junot Diaz

“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.…

— Junot Díaz

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

— Junot Díaz

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that…

— Junot Diaz

“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran…

— Junot Díaz

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree…

— Junot Diaz

“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own…

— Junot Díaz