Somerstein Maxine Quotes

#1. Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#2. People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#3. Cherish your wilderness. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#4. I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#5. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#6. Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#7. Matthew shook his head. "Whoever said anything of women in the Victorian era being prim and proper apparently hadn't met Maxine Fleming."
Tahatan chuckled. "I'm sure a publisher somewhere would make a nice fortune with putting this into print. The fact is, people tend to look back on bygone times through rose-colored glasses. All eras have encouraged values that are pushed on the surface, but in the end, people are still people. #Quote by Tiffany Apan

#8. Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#9. On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track ... They would have you believe that if they get into office, they are going to make sure that they are going to get rid of everyone in our society who was not born in America. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#10. A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#11. If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#12. 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. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#13. The row ostensibly has to do with tables versus CSS, a controversial issue of the time, which has always, given its level of passion, struck Maxine as somehow religious. She imagines it will be difficult, no matter which side prevails, to appreciate, ten years from now, the all-consuming nature of the dispute. #Quote by Thomas Pynchon

#14. If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself. #Quote by Maxine Phillips

#15. I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#16. Love, we are a small pond. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#17. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#18. All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed. #Quote by Maxine

#19. I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#20. Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes ... Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#21. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58) #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#22. I cant help but notice that you are not wearing a wedding ring, dear lady. Are you, by any chance, looking for a husband?' He smiled eagerly, his drenched hat clinging to his round head.

Looking for a husband? Why?' Grandma Maxine asked. 'Did I lose one? #Quote by Suzanne Selfors

#23. I figured anything Maxine Rothaus called rough was, in fact, vicious and lawless and inclined to eat its own young. #Quote by Melissa Jensen

#24. So many poems you go into and come up empty. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#25. Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#26. My job is my own only land. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#27. What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality. #Quote by Maxine Greene

#28. The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#29. The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#30. My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#31. My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests. #Quote by Maxine

#32. When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#33. When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality. #Quote by Maxine

#34. Maxine Hancock says we should think of ourselves as the servant leaders of our homes. I think by the addition of the word leaders, she implies that while we serve we should also command respect. #Quote by Sheila Wray Gregoire

#35. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#36. Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#37. And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope. #Quote by Maxine Swann

#38. You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.' #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#39. I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars. #Quote by Maxine Waters

#40. Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#41. My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil. #Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

#42. You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives the illusion that you singing in your sleep and number one places around the country, you have to have your eyes open. You can close your eyes for a certain gesture or whatever but your eyes are the mirrors of your soul ... #Quote by Maxine Powell

#43. Nature is a catchment of sorrows. #Quote by Maxine Kumin

#44. I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. #Quote by Maxine Kumin