#junot diaz

[motivatedaily]

[askyea-poesy]

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

Junot Diaz

[z0ruas]

If you’re a boy writer, it’s a simple rule: you’ve gotta get used to the fact that you suck at writing women and that the worst women writer can write a better man than the best male writer can write a good woman. And it’s just the minimum. Because the thing about the sort of heteronormative masculine privilege, whether it’s in Santo Domingo, or the United States, is you grow up your entire life being told that women aren’t human beings, and that women have no independent subjectivity. And because you grow up with this, it’s this huge surprise when you go to college and realize that, “Oh, women aren’t people who does my shit and fucks me.” And I think that this a huge challenge for boys, because they want to pretend they can write girls. Every time I’m teaching boys to write, I read their women to them, and I’m like, “Yo, you think this is good writing?” These motherfuckers attack each other over cliche lines but they won’t attack each other over these toxic representations of women that they have inherited… their sexist shorthand, they think that is observation. They think that their sexist distortions are insight. And if you’re in a writing program and you say to a guy that their characters are sexist, this guy, it’s like you said they fucking love Hitler. They will fight tooth and nail because they want to preserve this really vicious sexism in the art because that is what they have been taught. And I think the first step is to admit that you, because of your privilege, have a very distorted sense of women’s subjectivity. And without an enormous amount of assistance, you’re not even going to get a D. I think with male writers the most that you can hope for is a D with an occasional C thrown in. Where the average women writer, when she writes men, she gets a B right off the bat, because they spent their whole life being taught that men have a subjectivity. In fact, part of the whole feminism revolution was saying, “Me too, motherfuckers.” So women come with it built in because of the society. - Junot Diaz

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

A novel’s bulk is a respite from life’s implacable uncertainty. You and I can end in a heartbeat, without warning, but no novel ends until that last page is turned. There’s something deeply consoling about that contract the novel makes with its reader.

– Junot Díaz

[sinligh]

Sometimes it feels like I’m raising a young girl that chooses death inside a woman who have no choice but to bring life.

I see the world through shades that refuse to exist.

The eye of truth is obsessed with death as much as it fears resurrection.

I have faith in the future. I know I have more time to dig up more graves in the graveyard that is my soul for versions of myself that were never allowed to be.

Now, i know myself In the comfort of the walls of my own mind

I know myself, alone.

Sarcastic, a bit cynical some of my pieces have fallen out, Others are hanging like broken teeth. My skin won’t shed completely and my fingers aren’t enough to hold me

Yet, I refuse to ask for help afraid if someone actually reached out

I’ll bite…

Loneliness to someone who’s used to be alone and prefers to be feels a lot like betrayal…

I wish I could stop feeling this lonely all the time, it’s almost like a phantom limb pain. I’m feeling pain in a part of me that no longer exists…

Bleeding rage from an invisible wound.

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•Quotes: Halsey/Christa Wolf/ Anne Sexton/ Anne Carson/Louis Tomlinson/ Kaveh Akbar/Junot Diaz/ Janet Fitch/Rosalind M. Baker.

•Original context: sinligh

•Art reference:

1. Art by Liu Yuanshou. 2. Jada Wilson "The Fallen Order". 3. Ray Donley (1950, American). 4. “Emergiendo Ill”DeAngel painting 2008. 5.MIND OVER MATTER by Valerie Patterson.

[ariesnotes]

Author: Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

[karlnapity]

L'Manburg, or the beginning of the day and the home you leave behind

Miriam Adeney // Evelyn Waugh // Yizheng Ke // Junot Diaz// Walter Benjamin // Vincent Van Gogh // Anne Carson // Ocean Vuong

[allloversbetray]

From This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz