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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.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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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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Privilege does not operate without silence.
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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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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
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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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People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
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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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Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.
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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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There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.
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In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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