Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

Maxine Hong Kingston — American Writer born on October 27, 1940,

Maxine Hong Kingston is 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

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.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

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