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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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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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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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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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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 feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.
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There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
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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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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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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.
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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
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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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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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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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