The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
From Maxine Hong Kingston
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
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.
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.
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