Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

• In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

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  Inspirational, Peace, School

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• In a time of destruction, create something.

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  Hope, Destruction

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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• We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

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  Sky, Together, Alive

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.171, Vintage

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• A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

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  Together, Stories, Conflict

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• Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

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  Alegría

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “I Love a Broad Margin To My Life”, p.113, Random House

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• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

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  Motivational, Change, Women

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

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• When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

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  Girl, Hurt, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

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• Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

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  People, Path, Crosses

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 08, 2012

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• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

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  Teaching, Mind, Rooms

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.35, Vintage

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• There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

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  Philosophical, Trying, Curtains

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

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  Libro, Pensamiento, Mente

  Interview with David L. Ulin, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 6, 2011.

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• When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

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  Sex, Race, Needs

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• No puede haber un mito puro, sobre todo cuando el mito se ha transmitido por tradición oral. A medida que se cuentan las historias, cambian. Si las historias no cambian, simplemente mueren.

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  Stories, Oral Tradition, Don't Change

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• Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

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  Madre, Justicia, Diversidad

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

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  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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• The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

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  Ideas, Ephemeral, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Jun 30, 2010

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• La diferencia entre los locos y los cuerdos... es que los cuerdos tienen variedad cuando hablan-cuentan. Los locos tienen una sola historia que cuentan una y otra vez.

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  Differences, People, Mad

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.176, Vintage

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• El sudor del trabajo duro no debe exhibirse. Es mucho más elegante aparecer favorecido por los dioses.

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  Business, Hard Work, Sweat

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.72, Vintage

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• Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

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  Vision, World, Hunger

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage

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• Antes de que podamos dejar a nuestros padres, nos llenan la cabeza como las maletas que atestan de ropa interior casera.

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  Parent, Underwear, Jam

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.98, Vintage

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• Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

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  Rooms, Daydreaming, Messed Up

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.69, Vintage

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• Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

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  Training, March, Humans

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• You can't eat straight A's.

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  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.54, Vintage

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• How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

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  Peces

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “China Men”, p.105, Vintage

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• Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

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  Feet, Dangerous, Bounds

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

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