Junot Diaz Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

  Junot Diaz

  Book, School, Black

  "Junot Diaz Interview: Prize-Winning Author Talks High School, Being A Nerd". Interview with Marisa Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

• I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably would have just gone to law school. And the scary part is that I was one of those kids who always tested really well. You put a test in front of me, and I would have been like do-do-do-do-do. I probably would have been some community lawyer somewhere - if anything, that's probably what I would have been doing.

  Junot Diaz

  School, Kids, Law

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, Teacher, Book

• I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, School, High School

  "The return of the young master". Interview with Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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