Inua Ellams

""Rather, what inspires me? Truth and the search for greater understanding. I don’t believe that we are fundamentally different from each other.""

""We don’t teach that. I think we teach science, and we teach circuitry and you have to tick the box, but we don’t say, ‘The world is out there, go build.’""

""I learnt from an early age that folks are folks. Regardless of race, culture, age, identity we are all as inventive, deceitful, gorgeous, violent, supreme, kind, devious, incredibly welcoming, kind a…"

""Creativity is flexibility. It means having no fixed way of beginning conversations or approaching problems.""

""Fear is one of the greatest inhibitors to creativity, because you think, I cannot think that, because this and this and this might happen; rather than just going forth and thinking it through and rea…"

""I had wanted to be a visual artist. I wanted to paint and create with my fingers, but I couldn’t afford acrylic paint, and I didn’t yet really know how to use Photoshop, but I still wanted to express…"

""Everything boils down to poetry for me.""

""Fundamentally, anything that an artist creates is autobiographical because you are expressing something of yourself.""