"This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fan…"

"I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you k…"

"Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is W…"

"We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is ho…"

"If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes."

"Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] thin…"

"Writing fearlessly because, as my friend Junot Díaz has said, "a writer is a writer because even when there is no hop…"

"I teach his work in my creative writing classes now, to give students a sense of voice and language and just fierce h…"

"When I first read Junot Díaz’s short story collection Drown I felt seen for the first time."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."