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We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What's really important is how this shit resides in us, how this just lives in us, man, even if we're the good guy – it should give a motherfucker pause.
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If you think learning salsa is your future, you're going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.
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Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we're interpreting the morality of immigrants is Chaucer.
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You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
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She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
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You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.
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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.
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She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
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When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
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It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
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And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
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That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.
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I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
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You know how it is when you get back with somebody you've loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again
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If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.
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Junot Díaz
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Born:
December 31, 1968
(age 55)
Bio:
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review.
Known for:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
This is How You Lose Her (2012)
Drown (1996)
Beacon Best of 2001 (2001)
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