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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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The sisters walked back to Chinatown.... They walked past the vegetable, fish, and meat markets — not as abundant as in Canton, the carp not as red, the turtles not as old — and entered the cigar and seed shop. Brave Orchid filled her sister's thin hands with carrot candy, melon candy, and sheets of beef jerky.
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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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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
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My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands — 'Send money' — and posterity forever — 'Put food in front of the picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese-American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks.
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Women looked like great sea snails — the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Born:
October 27, 1940
(age 83)
Bio:
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
Known for:
The Woman Warrior (1976)
China Men (1980)
Tripmaster Monkey (1989)
The fifth book of peace (2003)
Hawaiʻi one summer (1987)
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