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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
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 came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.
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...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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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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