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About Junot Diaz
Dominican American writer and creative writing professor
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer and creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with 131 quotes on the site. He was also a former fiction editor at Boston Review. His work centers on the immigrant experience, especially the Latino immigrant experience. That focus shapes much of what he is known for as a writer and teacher.
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- “I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.”Junot Diaz
- “We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it…”Junot Diaz
- “I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.”Junot Diaz
- “I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.”Junot Diaz
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