Aunt Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

“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

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

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

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“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

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

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

“Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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