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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. (p64)

— Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

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I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.

Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers (1982)

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

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