“Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you and respect yourself.”

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Two young doctors – one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth – invited me to go to Mecca in my husband’s stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

Find the good and celebrate it.

Most people cant’ deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Spanking is a one handed round of applause in appreciation of a magnificent Ass.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

You never realise the value of something until it’s gone, hence why you should always appreciate the little things in life.

One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.