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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 wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
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Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
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My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work unconsciously, which is great. I've never been able to directly plug, like to take a little snip that I've picked up on the street and transfer it into a story. I don't know what's wrong, but it never works that way.
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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