M.I.A. Quotes

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

I don't look at it as Hollywood or Bollywood, but, of course, my roots are here, and at the end of the day, it's about your roots. You can't take India out of me.

I have roots in Jabalpur and that's as Indian as it can get.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

I'm a quarter Indian; my grandfather's originally from New Delhi.

I am an Indian to the core.

India is home, and that's never going to change.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.

I grew up a Tamilian.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place. Grow plants. Build. Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home. After Change goes back… I want home.

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.