Quotes by : Junot Díaz

Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just....

In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and....

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that....

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane....

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced....

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered....

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone....

Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing....

The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from....

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?