Junot Diaz Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

  Junot Diaz

  Pigs, People, Identity

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

• When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Kids, Nerd

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