Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingstonis a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1940
CountryUnited States of America
talking people village
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
hurt people ancestry
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
order people childhood
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
differences mad people
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 talk over and over.
inspiring revenge people
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.
people path crosses
Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
found work
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
training march humans
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
forever young live-forever
You're too young to decide to live forever.
ugly may retarded
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
hate range
And I had to get out of hating range.
feet dangerous bounds
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
infidelity extravagance adultery
Adultery is extravagance.