"Before we can leave our parents, they stuff……" — Maxine Hong Kingston
"Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear."
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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41 Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston has 41 quotes on this site.
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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar…
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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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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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch…
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace,…
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution.…
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You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years,…
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Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
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More Heads Quotes
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one of 1,306 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
— Michelle Bachelet
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
— Erykah Badu
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
— Dave Barry
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when…
— Annie Besant
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Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it…
— Sandra Bullock
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather…
— Madeleine Albright
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
— David Byrne
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
— Herman Cain
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It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof…
— Eric Cantona
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow…
— Coco Chanel
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