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born 1984 Nigeria
Inua Marc Mohammed Onore de Ellams II MBE FRSL (born 23 October 1984) is a Nigerian-born British poet, playwright and performer. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.
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"Everything boils down to poetry for me."
"Fundamentally, anything that an artist creates is autobiographical because you are expressing something of yourself."
"Rather, what inspires me? Truth and the search for greater understanding. I don’t believe that we are fundamentally different from each other."
"Creativity is flexibility. It means having no fixed way of beginning conversations or approaching problems."
"Social media is negatively affecting our attention span, which means that we do not think deeply enough to solve problems."
"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 and two faced as each other."
"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 realising that it doesn’t work. We just stop."
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