If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.Maya Lin
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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