Junot Diaz Quotes

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 31, 1968

Topics

PeopleWritingStereotypesWayLevel

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Ann Landers

WalkKingsPersonClassVirtueTalk

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

LifeLoveAgeCreativityMindYouth

I would like to work with The Weeknd. That's my boy, though; that's my friend.

Tory Lanez

WorkFriendBoyWouldLikeThough

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

Martin Sheen

WomanI AmFaceRealityJudgeNever

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

Michelle Alexander

EducationGreatVoteGrandparents

'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

Lorraine Gary

LifeMeMy LifeDamnDifference

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

GreatYouWillTalentsImproveThem

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

JoJo

GoodBiteA Good ThingThing

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

Christopher Fowler

FatherManProblemDramaChristmas

I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Brad Schneider

WorkFutureHealthPeopleLooking

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

Anushka Sharma

LoveWomenWorldStrongSayMean

I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.

Ashton Irwin

LoveAliveLeadSingerBigBig Fan

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