Famous Junot Daz Quotes

  • Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. – Junot Daz

    Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.– Junot Daz

  • Mother????ers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. – Junot Daz

    Mother????ers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.– Junot Daz

  • You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don’t find every day. – Junot Daz

    You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don’t find every day.– Junot Daz

  • And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows. – Junot Daz

    And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.– Junot Daz

  • My heart is beating like it’s lonely, like there’s nothing else inside of me. – Junot Daz

    My heart is beating like it’s lonely, like there’s nothing else inside of me.– Junot Daz

  • It’s just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it. – Junot Daz

    It’s just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.– Junot Daz

  • But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,’ he wrote back, ‘This is my home. – Junot Daz

    But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,’ he wrote back, ‘This is my home.– Junot Daz

  • if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. – Junot Daz

    if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.– Junot Daz

  • Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. – Junot Daz

    Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.– Junot Daz

  • I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn’t think it’s cursed? – Junot Daz

    I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn’t think it’s cursed?– Junot Daz