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Maxine Hong Kingston is an influential American author known for her pioneering work in the genre of creative non-fiction. Born on October 27, 1940, she has made significant contributions to American literature with her distinctive narrative style and exploration of cultural identity. Her most notable works include 'The Woman Warrior' and 'China Men', which have been pivotal in shaping the narrative of Asian American identity.

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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.”

People Feels Wells War Country Beautiful Reading Lost Gone Terrible Gratitude Creatures Rivers Nostalgia Forests Lap Lost Time

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“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.”

People I Can Walks Talking Like Me Someday Village

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“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.”

People Stories Differences Mad Variety Sane

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.”

People Path Crosses Right Thing

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“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 May I Can Inspiring Common Five Crime Return Revenge Reports Vengeance Resemblance Idiom

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.”

People Hurt Comfort Worship Ancestor Reverse Ancestry Ancestor Worship

Book:The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic

Source: The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic

“Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.”

People Different Eye Sleep Land Ocean Ears Asking

Book:China Men

Source: China Men

“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.”

People Whole Together Order Childhood Raises Attraction Sensuality Organize Elude

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

About the Author

Born: October 27, 1940
Known for: Author
Quotes: 64

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