I am a deeply creative individual, with artistic interests dating back to my early childhood in Lagos when I gradually began to horn my skills in drawing, cartoon making, painting, acting, poetry and spoken word displays. I pushed these skills to a higher level in the course of my tertiary school education at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where besides my core Economics studies, I devoted time to creative representations and writings, and importantly using these to engage critical issues within the university and the larger society. In the course of the two decades career as a development expert, I have continued to dedicate time to creating insightful, inspirational and life-issues centered quotes, which I began sharing with a few of my friends and contacts, and subsequently to a larger audience through my #dawntides sites (https://dawntides.org) and social media platforms. My quotes continue to reflect my appreciation of life, the beauty around me, the struggles and realities that humans face as well as the triumphs that come in the course of people raising themselves through dedicated self-growth I have keen interest in enabling people embrace their artistic selves and to find their own paths to expressing their unique art-forms for enhancing human dignity and human development.