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When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
— Maxine Hong Kingston
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
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My job is my own only land.
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Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
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Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
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When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better
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We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.
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I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.
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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
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Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.
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I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
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Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature ... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
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Adultery is extravagance.
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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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But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
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You can't eat straight A's.
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For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
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Mothers who love their children take them along.
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Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
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I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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You're too young to decide to live forever.
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Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.
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Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.
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I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
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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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Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
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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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Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
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I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
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It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.
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The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
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The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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In a time of destruction, create something.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
— Maxine Hong Kingston