Junot Diaz Quotes about Children

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There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted.

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

Junot Diaz

Children, Long, Parent

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

What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

Junot Diaz

Children, Husband, Father

Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.164, Faber & Faber