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.
Maxine Hong KingstonI'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
Maxine Hong KingstonDo the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong KingstonTo 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.
Maxine Hong KingstonI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong Kingston