Junot Diaz Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Culture, Take Your Time

• I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

• Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Hurtful, Tourism

• As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Struggle, Culture

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

• Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Latin, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, People, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, People, Culture

  "Fidelity In Fiction: Junot Diaz Deconstructs A Cheater". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

• 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.

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