Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them.… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do for a living? Yea, you're going to have to work because you can't be a housewife. Somebody has… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through.” — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
