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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.
More from Junot Diaz (131 quotes) →Keep reading Junot Diaz
- “Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'”Junot Diaz
- “I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It…”Junot Diaz
- “When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after…”Junot Diaz
- “Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has alway…”Junot Diaz
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