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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. -- Henry Louis Gates
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. -- Jeff Buckley
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might. -- Amy Tan
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak. -- Salman Rushdie
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. -- Henry Louis Gates
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will. -- Oscar Wilde
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art. -- Alanis Morissette
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki

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