Junot Diaz Quotes About Fighting

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 Diaz

  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 Diaz

  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 Diaz

  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 Diaz

  Fighting, Our World, Logic

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

• John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.

  Junot Diaz

  Fighting, Doubt, Tights

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