I feel that it's part of my work as an artist, a creator, a human being, is to integrate and to be more inclusive and to define American as large and… - Maxine Hong Kingston

One of the things he (Thích Nhất Hạnh) says is that we don't know how to feel peace. We don't understand the joy that is peace. We think that it's boring. And that is an aesthetic and a social perception. He is dealing with many of these same problems we are facing, and I just know he has some answers. (1991)

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. (p12, "No Name Woman")

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