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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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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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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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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
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