M.I.A. Quotes

Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

I do not favor the gag order.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

There are worse prisons than words.