Junot Diaz Quotes About Nerds

Quotes about: Nerds

• Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

  Junot Diaz

  Eight, Bridges, Play

• I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

  Junot Diaz

  Men, Thinking, Color

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

• I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.

  Junot Diaz

  Color, Nerd, Males

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

• If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.

  Junot Diaz

  Kids, Nerd, Geek

  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

• Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

  Junot Diaz

  Growing Up, Nerd, Use

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