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Maxine Hong Kingston quotes

American Writer October 27, 1940

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Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. Maxine Hong Kingston
My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present."
Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present. 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 to change it in positive ways. Maxine Hong Kingston
…I have changed/I am a dandelion puffball blur. My hair,/scribbles of white lines. My face. Lines/crisscross and zigzag my face./My eyes. I am looking into eyes/whose color has turned lighter, hazy brown./Wind and time are blowing me out." –Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more..."
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Maxine Hong Kingston
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.) Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit,..."
Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing. Maxine Hong Kingston
This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read. Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let..."
Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through. Maxine Hong Kingston
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 when she messes it up herself. Maxine Hong Kingston
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "In a time of destruction, create something."
In a time of destruction, create something. 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 peace have to be invented, and invented again Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're..."
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. Maxine Hong Kingston

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