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"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.’"

— Inua Ellams

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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."

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