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The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 27
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Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.
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When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.
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I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.
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Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures I have lived a large life.
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Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
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Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
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Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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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.
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth we're alive together during the same moment.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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In a time of destruction, create something.
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You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
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My job is my own only land.
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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.
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
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