Junot Diaz Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

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

  Junot Diaz

  Mistake, Weak

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.6, Faber & Faber

• 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.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

• I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Country, Mistake

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

• 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.

  Junot Diaz

  Mistake, Appreciate, United States

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

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