I am good. I live good. I think good. I don’t have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
PETER TOSHMe 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.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality
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I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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My mother and father didn’t know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, ‘My, the man play that guitar nice.’
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And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
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I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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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 mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
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Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.
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My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it’s so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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My earthly parents don’t know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren’t taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
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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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When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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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