“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

—  Junot Díaz, book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. gh…" by Junot Díaz?
Junot Díaz photo
Junot Díaz75
Dominican-American writer 1968

Related quotes

Bernie Sanders photo

“When you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto, you don't know what it's like to be poor.”

Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont

&quot;Sanders: If You&#x27;re White You Don&#x27;t Know What It&#x27;s Like To Be Poor&quot; http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/06/sanders-if-youre-white-you-dont-know-what-its-like-to-be-poor-video/ by Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller (6 March 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016

Rachel Cohn photo

“Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Haruki Murakami photo

“A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

River Phoenix photo

“It's really designed, I think, to strip you and blend you. It's like feeling like the invisible man. You just stand there, and you start disintegrating, and you can't see yourself, and you just feel like you're being absorbed into this big blob of glitter.”

River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist

On Los Angeles, Rolling Stone (1991)

Michael Lewis photo

“The orders resting on BATS were typically just the 100-share minimum required for an order to be at the front of any price queue, as their only purpose was to tease information out of investors. The HFT firms posted these tiny orders on BATS—orders to buy or sell 100 shares of basically every stock traded in the U. S. market—not because they actually wanted to buy and sell the stocks but because they wanted to find out what investors wanted to buy and sell before they did it. BATS, unsurprisingly, had been created by high-frequency traders.”

Michael Lewis book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 73

Annika Sörenstam photo

“I just feel that there's a little bit of lack of respect and class just to kind of leave a tournament like that and then come out and practice here, especially being the hostess. You know, I don't know the situation, if it's injury or whatever it is. It's just -- it just seemed really weird.”

Annika Sörenstam (1970) Swedish golfer

Annika Sorenstam comments re Michelle Wie - Press Conference 2007 LPGA Championships http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=43436

Donald J. Trump photo

“People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Council Bluffs, Iowa, quoted in * 2016-09-29
Donald Trump's Bizarre Speech: 'You Are The Smartest People'
Leading Britain's Conversation
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/us-election/donald-trump/donald-trumps-bizarre-speech-smartest-people/
2016, September 2016

Jim Henson photo

“If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U. S.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Page 68.
Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

Related topics