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Junot Diaz Biography

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.

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It's never the changes we want that change everything.

Change, Changes, Everything, Want

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Beautiful, Country, Crimes, Mistake, Mistakes, Way

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

Assemble, Connected, Fragments, Realities, Reality

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

Act, Saving, Simple, Waking

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Human, Planet, Rights, Should, Violation, World

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.

Astonished, Book, Country, Myth, Talking

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

Being Cool, Consciously, Cool, Different, Original, Thinking

For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

Battle, Hillary, People, President, Stopping, Understand

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

Love, Love Is, Real, Real Love, Shed

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

Afraid, Beating, Fall, Heart, Thinking, West

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

Devour, Love Is, Place, Possibility, Want

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

Composed, Foremost, Kids, Past, Write, Writing

The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut.

Keeping, Know, Mouths, People, Support

[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.

City, Desire, Home, New York, Nothing, Thinking

I act most like myself. . . when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

Domingo, Five, Hometown, Trying, Years

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.

Character, Contract, Deep, Mind, Minutes, Space

The U. S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U. S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

Apocalyptic, Crazy, Incredibly, Indifferent, Reality, Transgressive

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Art, Culture, Take, Take Your Time, Telling

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Ask, Checks, Hands, I Smile, Smiles, Wallets

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.

America, Call, Eight, Minds, Sphere, White

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