Junot Diaz Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Reality, Thinking

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

• I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

  Junot Diaz

  Reality, Fragments, Connected

• As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Reality, Uncomfortable

• The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

  Junot Diaz

  Crazy, Reality, Indifferent

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

• We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We’ve got to deal with this reality. We’ve got to extend the franchise.

  Junot Diaz

  Reality, Thinking, People

  "Junot Diaz Defends Immigration Reform On The Colbert Report". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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