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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
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For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.
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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
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As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.
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In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.
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