New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
AI WEIWEIIf it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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