M.I.A. Quotes

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• Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!
• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day,…
• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
• Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
• Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something,…
• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
• I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
• My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin…
• You have to constantly redefine who you are.
• I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
• In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd.…
• Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their…
• As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
• My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the…
• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of…
• Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to…

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