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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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Creativity is the power to act.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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