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 TOSHI have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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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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To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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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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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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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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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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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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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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If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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