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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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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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We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.
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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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The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.
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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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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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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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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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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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Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
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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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You can't be a human without seeing.
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I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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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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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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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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