Junot Diaz Quotes About Representation

Quotes about: Representation

• In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Community, Doe

• The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Men, Long

• When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Thinking, Color

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

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