Still ending, and beginning still!

“Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.” —Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin’ (1973)

“People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.”

“Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.”

“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah’s gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”

“Man can’t do without God. Just like you’re thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can’t go without God.”

“I don’t stand for black man’s side, I don’t stand for white man’s side, I stand for God’s side.”

“We Jah people can make it work.”

“The harder the battle the sweet of Jah victory.”

“What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

“The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.”

“It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.”

“Don’t give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.”

“You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.”

“You just can’t live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it’s a new day…”

“You have to be someone.”

“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”—Zion Train, from the album Uprising (1980)

“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.”

“None but ourselves can free our minds.” – Bob Marley

“You just can’t live in that negative way….. make way for the positive day.”

“Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.”

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis