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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.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.
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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition.
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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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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I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.
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I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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It took me sixteen years to write.
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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
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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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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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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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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
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You can't be a human without seeing.
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