M.I.A. famous quotes

04-18-2025

You have to constantly redefine who you are.
-- M.I.A.

#Who You Are
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.
-- M.I.A.

#Civilization #Greek #Stills
I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
-- M.I.A.

#War #Voice #Support
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.
-- M.I.A.

#Creativity #Ideas #Work Out
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 street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
-- M.I.A.

#Fashion #Uncles #Car
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.
-- M.I.A.

#Nike #Kids #Design
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
-- M.I.A.

#Mirrors #Perception #Feels
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.
-- M.I.A.

#Grief #Despair #Savages
Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.
-- M.I.A.

#Bed #Nurturing #Constant
I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
-- M.I.A.

#Bridges #East #Want
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.
-- M.I.A.

#Fall #Civilization #America
Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
-- M.I.A.

#Permission #Exciting
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
-- M.I.A.

#Order #Bullshit #Silence
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, it's out of your control.
-- M.I.A.

#Thinking #Funeral #Wish
Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!
-- M.I.A.

#Retirement #New Beginnings #Wonderful
I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name
-- M.I.A.

#Names #Hip Hop #Borders
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.
-- M.I.A.

#Music #Political #Feels

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