In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.
Maxine Hong Kingston...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.
Maxine Hong KingstonHumans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
Maxine Hong KingstonBe careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.
Maxine Hong Kingston