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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

Peter Tosh

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.
PETER TOSH

Children Song Writing
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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Bloom Born Flower Music Tree
When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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Adjustment Imagination Myself Planet
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!
PETER TOSH

Corruption News Television Watch
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.
PETER TOSH

Education Graduation People School
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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Audience Hypnotize Music Play Potential
Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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Certificate Grave One Liner Peace
I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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Equality Justice Peace Rights
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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Black Born Church Inequality Snow Songm White
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.
PETER TOSH

Cross Crown Motivatioanl Philosophy
It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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Balance Energy Physical Wheel
It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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Equality Truth
It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Man Truth
I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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Obligation Owe
If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
PETER TOSH

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

Body Feeling Heart Mind Music Soul

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