Quotes from Peter Tosh

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

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 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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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 man don't come red, I come Black

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

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.'

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.