Top 60 Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes (2024 Update)
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Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “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 life of artists.”

51. “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 life of artists.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “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.”

52. “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: “To make my waking life American-normal, I turn on the lights before anything untoward makes an appearance. I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.”

53. “To make my waking life American-normal, I turn on the lights before anything untoward makes an appearance. I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.”

54. “I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one’s guts not be turned into action.”

55. “The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one’s guts not be turned into action.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “There can’t be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don’t change they just die.”

56. “There can’t be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don’t change they just die.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.”

57. “Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighing them.”

58. “Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighing them.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.”

59. “When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.”

60. “What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.”

61. “His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.”

62. “I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “If only I could let my mother know the list, she – and the world – would become more like me, and I would never be alone again.”

63. “If only I could let my mother know the list, she – and the world – would become more like me, and I would never be alone again.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “I’ve been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.”

64. “I’ve been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “I refused to cook. When I had to wash dishes, I would crack one or two. “Bad girl,” my mother yelled, and sometimes that made me gloat rather than cry. Isn’t a bad girl almost a boy?”

65. “I refused to cook. When I had to wash dishes, I would crack one or two. “Bad girl,” my mother yelled, and sometimes that made me gloat rather than cry. Isn’t a bad girl almost a boy?”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston Quote: “The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with.”

66. “The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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