I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
Peter Tosh
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.
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.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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.
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
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!
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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.
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
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.
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?
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.
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?
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
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.
I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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.'
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?
Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
