Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
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![“Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only…” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/m-i-a-3418_art_now-hip-hop-grime-artists-stormzy-skepta_2579135.jpg)
