Jamaican - Musician | October 19, 1944 - September 11, 1987
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.
Peter Tosh
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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?
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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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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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I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
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I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
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I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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!
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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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Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
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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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