That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — 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
