Junot Diaz Quotes - Page 4

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• The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

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  People, Population, World

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• What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

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  Opposites, People, Community

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• I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

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  Sleep, Too Much, Way

  "The return of the young master". Interview with Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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• I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

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  Reading, Kids, Obsessed

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• I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

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  Writing, Pieces, Resources

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• I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when that curtain closes. But let's keep it real honest here: They are voting for a xenophobic, anti-Latino white supremacist - don't try to pretty it up. This is now the age when people want to be white supremacists, but they don't actually want to be known for it.

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  Real, White, Numbers

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

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  Narrative, Might, Increase

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

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  America, Eight, Years

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

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  Kids, Jersey, New Jersey

  "Junot Diaz wins Pulitzer" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2008.

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• If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

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  Practice, Serious, Oppression

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• Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

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  Waiting, Calling, Yeah

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• Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

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  Simple, Saving, Waking

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• Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

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  Character, Unique, Long

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• [Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

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  New York, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.

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  Running, Fighting, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• It took me sixteen years to write.

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  Writing, Years, Sixteen

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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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  Shadow, Saws, Grew Up

  "Old friends Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman talk shop". Interview with Miwa Messer, www.csmonitor.com. September 14, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Color, Nerd, Males

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

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• When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.

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  Heartbroken, Football, Skulls

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• Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

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• I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

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  Crazy, Childhood, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

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  Writing, Warrior, Thinking

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

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  Stories, Pages, Return

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.

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  Color, People, Levels

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

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  Book, Long, Stories

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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