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

M.I.A.

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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
Activist
Actor
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Music Video Director
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Ventura County
California
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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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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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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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . .
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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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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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos. They funnel me through, Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?
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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
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When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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