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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
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Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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Nowhere
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This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.
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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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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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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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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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Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
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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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In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place.
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Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly 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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- 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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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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She had reason to doubt him he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
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Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
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I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
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