Random quotes by our master, Bob Marley

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***wikipedia entry on Bob Marley***

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

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind!

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

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

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

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

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

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!

Man is a universe within himself.

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.

My future is righteousness.

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

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.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

Tell the children the truth.

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

The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory.

“The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

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.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

You have to be someone.”

~ by rmordor on November 22, 2007.

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