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My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

— M.I.A. Interview to Rolling Stone (2010)

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Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information?

Interview to URB (2007)

Who the hell is huntin' you?
In the BMW
How the hell they find you?

I saw firsthand where the music we made ended up. It turned up in sterile bullshit clubs in LA, separated from the spirit we made it in.

Google’s more powerful than any government now – people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re going to turn against us.

When I come back to London, I feel really safe and familiar. But sometimes I feel like I'm on standby, waiting to go somewhere else – where something else is happening.

Interview to Metro (2007)

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Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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