M.I.A. Quotes

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• Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.

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  Bed, Nurturing, Constant

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• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

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  Who You Are

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• Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

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  Grief, Despair, Savages

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• Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

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  Rebel, Moments, That Moment

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I fly like paper, get high like planes
  If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name

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  Names, Hip Hop, Getting High

  Song: Paper Planes, Album: Kala

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• Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

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  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Perception

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• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

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  Thinking, Going Away, Storm

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

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  Fiction, Permission, Exciting

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• If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

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  People, Culture, Like Me

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out.

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  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.

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  Art, Creativity, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

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  Art, War, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

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  Music, Political, Feels

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• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

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  Weed, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

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  Light, People, Certain

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• 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, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

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  Fall, America, Civilization

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• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

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  Order, Bullshit, Silence

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• Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

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  Frustrated, Back In The Day, Express Yourself

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

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  Progress, Debate, Incomplete

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• 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 too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

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  Media, People, Car

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.

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  Mom, Hair, Lunch

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• 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 own designs.

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  Nike, Kids, Design

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• The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

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  Taken, Thinking, Accepted

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I dont like the idea of spirituality done the way its done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Work Out

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