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Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.

The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must never try to look 'pon it in a different way from what me a stand for.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind...

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 sigularity 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.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead.

The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone.

In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.

The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must never try to look 'pon it in a different way from what me a stand for.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tommorrow.

Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

Grass is for the ass, herb is for mankind.
- Bob Marley

Herb is the healing of all nations
- Bob Marley

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)

- Submitted by: LucidLupin
 
 

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