To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!