Best Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
- The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Appear
- What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not. Doe
- 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… Book
- There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change.… Been
- The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they… Difference
- In a time of destruction, create something. Create
- Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. Coincidental
- You can't eat straight A's. Eat
- 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… Ago
- 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… Daydream
- You're too young to decide to live forever. Decide
- We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. Alive
- 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… Able
- I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. Contradictions
- Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear. Heads
- Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing Changes