American - Writer | December 31, 1968 -
I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
Junot Diaz
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
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Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.
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Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
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I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.
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I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
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I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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