Junot Diaz Quotes About Immigration
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[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.
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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
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The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.
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I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
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