There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
AI WEIWEIEvery day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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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.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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