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It's important for communities to be put together on a different basis. It's really shitty that we're taught to be really patriotic when 99 percent of the shit that we wear and we use and eat and everything comes from everywhere all the time, and musically, it's the same.

— M.I.A. Interview on world music and culture mixing to Rolling Stone (2009)

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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?

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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.

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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?

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