I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSHMy 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.’
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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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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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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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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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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I 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.
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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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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.
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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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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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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
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