“Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren’t teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.”

Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

Music is in me.

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.

I man don’t come red, I come Black

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

My philosophy is: if you don’t bear a cross, you can’t wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Music is a science, it heals depression.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

She’d barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. – Beau

It’s not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.