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A person doesn't mourn forever.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
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Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.
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People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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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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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.
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