As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.Collection: Music
After a stage in our marriage, me and Bob had passed being husband and wife... We came to be brother and sister and I had to accept his other sweethearts and the children they gave him.Collection: Marriage
To move forward, you have to return home.Collection: Home
My husband believed 'the herb' was a natural and positive part of life, and he felt it was important to the world.Collection: Positive
I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.Collection: Experience
What Bob and I had was something special that God ordained. Ours was more than a husband-and-wife relationship, it was as if we had to do something for our people, to become a symbol for our time, and that feeling is still going on no matter what.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Learning
Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.Collection: Strength
It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.Collection: Family
Bob was chosen by my record company to help with my vocals, and our relationship developed through the music.Collection: Relationship
He saved me from being somebody else. I could have been prime minister, I could have been a prostitute on the streets, but I am what I am and Bob has a lot to do with that.
We'll be forever loving Jah, no matter what the crisis is.
I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'
I'm not Bob; there will never be another Bob Marley; nobody can compete, including myself.
I didn't really like light-skinned people. I'd always thought about a tall, dark, handsome guy. But Bob had something different. He was very disciplined, just like a father figure, which I respected, especially as my own father was away.
I have heard people giving different testimonies about what the music has done for them, for their children, for their life, for their marriages. It's a strength to people.
Bob wanted me to have a baby each year, but he also wanted me to continue being a back-up singer in his band and to go on the road with him.
The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don't really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That's my thought. That's how I feel. I want to keep him alive.
You listen to 'One Love,' you have to rock your head. You have to do something. It moves you. You cannot refuse it.
Sometimes I'm in Boston or Washington or Chicago and think I'm in Jamaica because I hear more reggae on the radio in these places than in Kingston!
It has always been the wish of Bob Marley to return to Ethiopia and become a Rastafarian.
So what that he had children with other women? He was always truthful, he always told me when another child was on the way. He would even bring the babies to me when they were born, and sometimes I would even bring them up myself.
Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer.
Love is the main ingredient. If you don't love, you can't love, you can't do good things.
With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a fresh star.
Bob Marley's in every new day. There's not one day that his music is not played all over the world.
Whatever time we're passing through, there will always be music.
There are a lot of great musicians in the world, but there is only, and will only ever be, one Bob Marley.
I don't want to be labeled a star, or billed as a star. I'm a messenger, really, and when I get work to do, I have to do it.
I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was not happening. The Wailers didn't write the songs and they had been paid for their work in the studio.
Water is truly the seed of life.
Prince Harry embodies the spirit of Bob Marley. The Prince was engaging, he was warm. He had real spirit. He was a charming young man. He's a militant. I see that military side to him. But as we would call him, or Bob would say, he seemed to be a rebel too.
Bob was the king, and as his queen I must carry on.
We give so much to others that sometimes we tend to forget our own feelings.
They say the good you do lives after you. Bob is one of those who proves that.
Bob Marley said in one of his songs: 'Can anything good come out of Trench Town?' The answer is yes.
Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.
Bob's music is therapy and entertainment.
Anything I don't like, I don't read.
People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk.
Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.
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.
One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.
I'm touring right now and you'd be surprised to see all of the kids that come to the concerts just to see Rita Marley because it's Bob Marley's wife. I might do three or four of Bob's songs in my repertoire and they go crazy.
Being able to express myself gave me a sense of relief.
You can't eat ackee without johnnycakes.
We might find someone one day to do what he was doing musically, but there is only one Bob. His spirit has spread across the world.
We stand for more than just getting the cash and running out. This family is recognized by millions of people worldwide; we have something to stand for, and we have always thought there were more important things than money.
The unique thing about Bob Marley, he writes what relates to everybody.
Bob is a normal man, just like any other man.