"I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting."

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I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

— M.I.A.