Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
PETER TOSHMy earthly parents don’t know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren’t taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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 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 am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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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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 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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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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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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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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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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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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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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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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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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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
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I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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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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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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