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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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Junot Diaz
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.
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I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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Privilege does not operate without silence.
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
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Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
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Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
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A person doesn't mourn forever.
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My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
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...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
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'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
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Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
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I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
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- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.
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Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.
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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
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You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.
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