We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us. - Junot Diaz

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Junot Diaz

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

Blind, Blind Spots, Like, Shaped, Spots

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I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

Asked, Hear, People, White, Worry

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

Book, Books, Dream, Historian, Teacher

I look most like myself. . . when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

Black, Engineering, Glasses, Like, Look

I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.

Playing, Probably, Thinking, Twenties, Way, Writer

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