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.
PETER TOSHPeople 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.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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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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If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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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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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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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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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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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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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 don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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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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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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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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I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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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Music is in me.
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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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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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