Junot Diaz Quotes

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.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DeathPeopleEndingPlaceNewOld

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Jim Harrison

PoetryAliveWriteKeepGods

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

John Prescott

TargetSaidChangesHousingDecent

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

SomeoneYouTellCommunistWellWho

I just - I fell in love with the sport when I started to ski gates. Once I was allowed to start training gates around 6 years old, then I really fell in love with it.

Mikaela Shiffrin

LoveTrainingStartOldYearsJust

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Michael Nutter

CarDayWorldYouEvery DayKnow

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

Julia Davis

LovePeopleMeThinkWantOthers

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Jon Watts

GreatFeelMoviesI Feel LikeJust

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

Chiang Kai-shek

CountryImperialismWillNationThen

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Philip Yancey

GodPrayerMeShoppingWayCompany

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Peter York

MistakesLearnNeverOverPleasure

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

Paula Deen

TeaSweetStartDietYouDown

When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend and things are good in my life, then it's better.

Kygo

LifeGoodMusicRoadBetterMy Life

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