In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong KingstonTags: life hope creation destruction
Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston...it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.
Maxine Hong KingstonThe 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 KingstonIt 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 KingstonThe 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.
Maxine Hong KingstonI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong KingstonDo the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong KingstonI'm going away anyway. I am. Do you hear me? I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. There's nothing wrong with my brain. Do you know what the Teacher Ghosts say about me? They tell me I'm smart, and I can win scholarships. I can get into colleges. I've already applied. I'm smart. I can do all sorts of things. I know how to get A's, and they say I could be a scientist or a mathematician if I want. I can make a living and take care of myself. So you don't have to find me a keeper who's too dumb to know a bad bargain. I'm so smart, if they say write ten pages, I can write fifteen. I can do ghost things even better than ghosts can. Not everyone thinks I'm nothing. I am not going to be a slave or a wife. Even if I am stupid and talk funny amd get sick, I won't let you turn me into a slave or a wife. I'm getting out of here. I can't stand living here anyore. It's your fault I talk weird.
Maxine Hong KingstonYou can't eat straight A's.
Maxine Hong KingstonTags: school poverty expectations
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