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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

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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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
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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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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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In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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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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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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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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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
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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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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
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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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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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