I man don't come red, I come Black

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

What the Rastaman represents is positivity.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.

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!

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

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.

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?

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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