Junot Díaz, Drown Quotes

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.