I man don’t come red, I come Black
PETER TOSHMy 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.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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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 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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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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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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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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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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.
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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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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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