"Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries."

“I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.”

Source : "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

“My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.”

Source : "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

“I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!”

“There is no beast more cruel than man.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (1914). “Savva: The Life of Man; Two Plays”

“Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.”

“The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation,”

Source : Business Week, 2007.

“I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !”

“Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,”