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Stories Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston
- 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,…
- 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…
- I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
- 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.…
- 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…
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