“I felt like I was seeing my life over again when I first arrived in Gh...” — Rita Marley Quote

“I felt like I was seeing my life over again when I first arrived in Ghana. I thought, 'This is part of me.' I knew what it was like to be poor and hungry.”

“Can you imagine he went to rest at the age of 36, and 30 years after he's still coming out with music for your listening pleasure? Not only for your dancing pleasure, but for learning at the same time. Because Bob Marley music teaches.”

“I'm not Bob; there will never be another Bob Marley; nobody can compete, including myself.”

“I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.”

“Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.”

“When I arrived in Washington I witnessed firsthand the corrupting influence of money in our politics.”