Junot Díaz
by eatonhamilton
“Whatever privilege we had, we were fucking ravenous about pursuing it. Unfortunately, pursuing privilege crimps your humanity. That’s something that takes a while for you to discover … every exercise of your privilege reduces your sum total of your humanity. I wouldn’t have noticed if my art wasn’t predicated on the sum total of my humanity. I kept coming up short as an artist and I had to look for the leaks. Where the fucking leaks are, it’s being a fucking asshole–you’re a fucking asshole, your humanity shrinks.”—Junot Díaz in conversation with the New York Public Library
Eaton Hamilton 
Junot Diaz came to the University of Notre Dame and did a lecture/reading, and he was so funny/swearing a lot (which he does, of course). When I met him out in the hallway to sign my book, he was like a big sweetie cupcake.