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Privilege does not operate without silence.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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Privilege
Silence
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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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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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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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It took me sixteen years to write.
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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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I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
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'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
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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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As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
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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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You can't be a human without seeing.
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You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.
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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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I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.
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To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
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Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
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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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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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