Efua Sutherland

"Crying the death day of another is crying your own death day. While we mourn for another, we mourn for ourselves. One’s death is the death of all mankind. Comfort! Comfort to us all, Comfort!"

"Hasn't it always been so that humanity has demonstrated its need over and over again for the artist and artistic creation? It's indispensable."

"The image of the book is a self-image. You open a book and it is about you, not always about other people."

"My purpose is to help develop the literature of my country."

"Educationally, it is absolutely necessary to make an effort to give our children that kind of a book, because they have been fed another thing for too long, and it does do damage to one’s sense of one’s self."