Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, whic...

In a time of destruction, create something.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the god...

I regret always writing, writing. I gave my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows,so i could hav...

To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the...

You can't eat straight A's.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emi...

Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought co...

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, t...

This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is si...