“We live in a society where saying that something is for girls is the equivalent to saying that something is stupid, or saying that something isn't worthwhile. I think that's awful and I think that kind of attitude needs to be changed.”

Notes from a library bar (2006)

In response to Time editor Edward Felsenthal question about how she dealt with all the haters
2020, Rolling Stone Interview: How one Swedish teenager armed with a homemade sign ignited a crusade and became the leader of a movement, Jack Davison, (March 2020)

&quot; Take Something Like a Star http://somethingbeautiful.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/robert_frost_to.html&quot; (1949) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: O Star (the fairest one in sight)<br>We grant your loftiness the right<br>To some obscurity of cloud —<br>It will not do to say of night,<br>Since dark is what brings out your light.<br>Some mystery becomes the proud.<br>But to be wholly taciturn<br>In your reserve is not allowed.<br>Say something to us that we can learn<br>By heart and when alone repeat.<br>Say something! And it says &quot;I burn.&quot;

White House press conference on Violence in Public Housing 8 June 1997 https://www.c-span.org/video/?86456-1/violence-public-housing

2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009

Stand-up, Excited for You to See and Hate This (2020)

Source: A Mask for the General (1987), Chapter 7 (p. 119)

Source: Firefight