"Put yourself in Godâ€™s hands and you canâ€™t go wrong."

-- James McBride

“I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.”
“I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'”
“One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.”
“In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.”

Source : "What Africa Needs Above All: The Rule of Law" by Dr. Mo Ibrahim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2014.
“Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.”

Source : Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1962). “Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs”, London : Cassell
“I've been called worse things by better people.”

Source : "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics" by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, (p. 19), 2006.

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