A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete. - Ai Weiwei

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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Ai Weiwei

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

Cities, City, Incomplete, Maximum, Offer, Place

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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Creativity, Imagination, Past, Potential, Reject, Simply

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

Art, Communication, Expression, Politics, Same, Wall

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Acts, Change, Chinese, Kind, Tell, Thinking

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Art, Fighting, Freedom, Purpose

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

Choices, Expression, Freedom, Human, Needs

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That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.

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Richard Dawkins

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance. " And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process.

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Aisha Hinds

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

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Jim Butcher

Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

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Paulo Freire

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

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