What did Maxine Hong Kingston mean by: When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA Copy
+ Gods you avoid won’t hurt you. Author, August 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Avoidance, Deity, Protection, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
+ How unlike a dead fish a live fish is. Author, September 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Comparison, Death, Life, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
I’ve been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Creativity, Storytelling, Writing, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
+ In a time of destruction, create something. Author, August 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Creation, Hope, Resilience, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighing them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dishonesty, marketing, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
+ Joy and life exist nowhere but the present. Author, October 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy, Life, Present, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
We’re all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we’re alive together during the same moment. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Connection, Humanity, Unity, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maxine Hong Kingston, Belief, Energy, Youth, 0 Maxine Hong Kingston Writer · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
