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Ma Jian

"I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them."

Source : "Search Rings SEARCH China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

Ma Jian

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“I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.”
“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.”
“Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.”
“Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.”
“Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.”
“Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.”

Source : "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
“Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love”
“Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.”

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