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.
PETER TOSHI’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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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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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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Music is in me.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
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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 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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