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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
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I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
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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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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
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Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.
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It took me sixteen years to write.
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You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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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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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.
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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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I always think about myself as a writer that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
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Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
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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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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 Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
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