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To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
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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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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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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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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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'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.
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She had reason to doubt him he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
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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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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
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A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.
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