Junot Diaz Quotes


We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.


Citations

Díaz, Junot. "Junot Díaz — Radical Hope." Interview by Krista Tippett. On Being, 29 Oct. 2015.

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Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz
  • Born: December 31, 1968
  • Nationality: American, Dominican
  • Profession: Novelist, Professor, Writer

Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.