I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
PETER TOSHI was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, ‘Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,’ made me sick.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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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?
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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.
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I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.
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I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
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If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it’s a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it’s a great music, a healing music.
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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.
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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
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Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That’s why me go write a song called ‘Illegitimate Children.’ It took me years to find out I was one.
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