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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 know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a…”Junot Diaz
- “It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't…”Junot Diaz
- “I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in wr…”Junot Diaz
- “I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.”Junot Diaz
Explore Poetry
- “In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more bearable…”Hubert Martin
- “Sevgili Güllük;Yastık kanepenin üzerine konur. Tekme atılarak düşürülür o. Pazar günleri kuru fasulye yenir.…”A.H. Muhsin Ünlü
- “I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”Kenneth Rexroth
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- “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”Honore de Balzac