If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. You don't know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around.
Junot DíazThey say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.
Junot DíazTags: fiction curse dominican-republic dominican antilles tainos
I would have waited until we got back to the States, waited like paja de arroz, burning slow, slow, until they dropped their guard and then one morning I would have disappeared. Like my father disappeared on my mother and was never seen again. Disappear like everything disappears.
Junot DíazI wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue.
I doubt it, I said.
I'm just saying, Yunior.
Maybe five thousand years ago we were together.
Five thousand years ago I was in Denmark.
That's true. And half of me was in Africa.
Doing what?
Farming, I guess. That's what everybody does everywhere.
Maybe we were together some other time.
I can't think when, I said.
You tried not to look at me. Maybe five million years ago.
People weren't even people back then.
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I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.
Junot DíazTags: procrastination laziness trying diligence
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