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I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

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Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

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One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if we recognize something as being new when it first appears. Usually I think we don't have that privilege. It's usually after the fact that we suddenly turn around and say, 'Wow, this thing is amazing.'

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I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

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A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

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When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

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When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.

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New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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