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"Maxine Hong Kingston" is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States.

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Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

To 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.

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