Junot Diaz Quotes

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BlackEnoughSafeKidsCategory

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

Jim Henson

PeopleBelieveBagTryingYouWill

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

Jim Rash

I AmMeWaitWorldYouI Can

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

Jeffrey Wright

EyesMeVoiceToolTheaterPrimary

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

John Cornyn

SuccessHomeWomenAloneFreeStory

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Melanie Fiona

GoodMeGrowCanadaPrivilegeUp

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

John McEnroe

EyeChanceProblemYearLookBack

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

AgeReligionMeDreamKnowMockery

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

Steve Wozniak

LifeYourselfPeopleBelieveDoing

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

Mary Beth Whitehead

NatureManLawLaws

I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.'

Lou Barlow

LifeLovePeopleCrazyHotelFast

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Constance Baker Motley

CityInfluenceDeepNewNew Orleans

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

Claire Tomalin

PeopleMeFriendsClosest Friends

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