How many things do you make for yourself? How much do you depend on others to make things for you? When people make things for you does it make you feel important or impotent?

Here’s some powerful quotes from Junot Diaz (via Rumpus) to infest the brain on a Monday morning. Are you making things (stories, drawings, compost, business deals, love)  to feel accepted, important? Or are you making them out of necessity?