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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.

Ai Weiwei

That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
AI WEIWEI

Contradictory Feeling Home Identity Question Require Sense Trust
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Across Book Bridge Ginsberg Having Traveler Walk
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Confuse Confused Later People Realize Something Want
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
AI WEIWEI

Care Culture Furthest Maybe People Understand
Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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Clear Lost Nothing Perhaps Totally Way
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Better Condition Good Guaranteed Life never Safe Use
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Aware Country Easy Govern Job
A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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Country Internet More Powerful Scared State
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
AI WEIWEI

China Long Periods
As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Communicate Dialogue Engage Living Lonely Long Society
I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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Importance Important Public Thinking Work
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Behind Contact Discrimination Expression Ignorant Leave Marrow Minded War
As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
AI WEIWEI

Being Clearly Human Mind Responsibility Society State Way
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Application Art Look School Statistic Student Ten Thousand

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.

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