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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Ai Weiwei

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.
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Country Education Issue Job Opportunity Racist Treatment
I want people to see their own power.
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Own People Power Want
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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Anger Art Equality Express Joy Life Much Separate
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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Civilization Freedom Important Level Society Speech
We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Allowed Border Country Government Public Redefine Sphere
That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Competition Country Face Measure Open Resort
There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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Country Hear Invite Single Student Talk University
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Opening Own Refuse Year
They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Defend Difficulty Dramatic Handle Idea Liberal Men Women Shame Show
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Artist Boundaries Extend Looking Possible
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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Find Happiness Own Place
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Care Culture Furthest Maybe People Understand
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Dictatorship Graceful Outdoor Sport Sports Stone Throwing

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