Junot Diaz Quotes About Fighting

• Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.

  Junot Díaz

  Girl, Couple, Fighting

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.53, Faber & Faber

• There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

  Junot Díaz

  Fighting, Sea, One Day

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

• I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.

  Junot Díaz

  Running, Fighting, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

• The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

  Junot Díaz

  Fighting, Our World, Logic

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

• John Carter fue también uno de nuestros primeros superhumanos reconocibles y no cabe duda de que sus extraordinarias proezas físicas inspiraron a los creadores de Superman. Recuerda: antes de que Superman pudiera volar o retroceder en el tiempo, era nada menos que un John Carter terrestre en mallas que luchaba contra el crimen.

  Junot Díaz

  Fighting, Doubt, Tights

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