I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.