When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
Junot DiazYbon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.
Junot DiazSadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.
Junot DiazPart of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.
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