M.I.A. Quotes

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

I was never part of the crowd.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Everyone is against me - except the people!

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.

In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away. Out of sight, out of mind.

I was ostracized by my community.