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When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage when I smile folks check their wallets.

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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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When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.
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Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
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I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.
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My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
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This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
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You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
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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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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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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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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
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Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.
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You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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You can't be a human without seeing.
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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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I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.
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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
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If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
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