Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
One love, one heart, Let’s get together and feel alright.
Judge not, if you’re not ready for judgment.
Truth is the light, So you never give up the fight.
Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
As quoted in Rolling Stone’s The
Immortals (2004) “Bob”
The more you accept herb, the more you accept rastafari.
“Possession make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.”
All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they’re here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb… … herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can’t find no reason. All them say is, ‘it make you rebel’. Against what?
Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don’t make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
As recorded in filmed interview
(1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa,
New Zealand
Who are you to judge the life I live? I am not perfect and I don’t have to be! before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean
They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Zimbabwe , from the album
Survival (1979)
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)
Every day the bucket a-go a well one day the bottom a-go drop out.
I Shot The Sheriff, from the
album Burnin’ (1973)
A hungry mob is an angry mob.
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) from the album Natty Dread (1974)
Your life is worth much more than gold.
Jamming , from the album Exodus
(1977)
Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift.
Easy Skanking, from the album
Kaya (1978)
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!” on Survival
(1979)
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Have no fear for atomic energy ’cause none of them can stop the time.
Redemption Song , from the album Uprising (1979)
We JAH people can make it work.
Work, from the album Uprising
(1980)
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Zion Train, from the album
Uprising (1980)
In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album
Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house
top than to live in a house full of confusion.
Running Away, from the album
Kaya
Judge Not (single, 1961)
Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you’re not ready for judgment.
Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me someone else is judging you.
I know that I’m not perfect and
that I don’t claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.
Say 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.
Positive Vibration, from the
album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
No Woman, No Cry , from the
album Natty Dread (1974)
Good friends we have had, oh good
friends we’ve lost along the way
In this bright future you can’t forget
your past
So dry your tears I say
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin’ don’t shed no tears
No woman, no cry
Ev’rything’s gonna be alright
So, no woman, no cry.
My fear is my only courage.
Bob Marley
Man is a universe within himself.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
Every time I plant a seed, he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
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.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively
Love the life you live, live the life you love.
You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
The winds that sometimes take
something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love.
Therefore we should not cry about
something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given.
Because what is really ours is never gone forever.
I like to see you move with the rhythm; I Like to see when you’re dancin’ from within.
The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Love would never leave us alone.
Truth is everybody is going to
hurt you: you just gotta find the
ones worth suffering for.
The good times of today, are the
sad thoughts of tomorrow.
If you’re white and you’re
wrong, then you’re wrong; if
you’re black and you’re wrong,
you’re wrong. People are
people. Black, blue, pink, green –
God make no rules about color;
only society make rules where
my people suffer, and that why
we must have redemption and
redemption now.
God sent me on earth. He send
me to do something, and nobody
can stop me. If God want to stop
me, then I stop. Man never can.
Herb is the healing of a nation,
alcohol is the destruction.
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.
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.
The devil ain’t got no power over
me. The devil come, and me
shake hands with the devil. Devil
have his part to play. Devil’s a
good friend, too… because
when you don’t know him, that’s
the time he can mosh you down.
When you smoke the herb, it
reveals you to yourself.
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold
you. If you prejudice, you can’t
move, you keep prejudice for
years. Never get nowhere with
that.
As a man sow, shall he reap. and
I know that talk is cheap. But
the heat of the battle is as sweet
as the victory.
If something can corrupt you,
you’re corrupted already.
If you get down and quarell
everyday, you’re saying prayers
to the devil, I say.
Everything is political. I will
never be a politician or even
think political. Me just deal with
life and nature. That is the
greatest thing to me.
Babylon is everywhere. You
have wrong and you have right.
Wrong is what we call Babylon,
wrong things. That is what
Babylon is to me. I could have
born in England, I could have
born in America, it make no
difference where me born,
because there is Babylon
everywhere.
Me is a common sense man.
That mean when me explain
things, me explain it in a very
simple way; that mean if I
explain it to a baby, the baby
will understand too, you know.
I don’t know how to live good. I
only know how to suffer.
My future is righteousness.
You entertain people who are
satisfied. Hungry people can’t
be entertained – or people who
are afraid. You can’t entertain a
man who has no food.
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.
What important is man should
live in righteousness, in natural
love for mankind.
I’ve been here before and will
come again, but I’m not going
this trip through.
It take many a year, mon, and
maybe some bloodshed must
be, but righteousness someday
prevail.
The more people smoke herb,
the more Babylon fall.
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.
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.
Rastafari not a culture, it’s a
reality.
Tell the children the truth.
Bob Marley isn’t my name. I
don’t even know my name yet.
I don’t believe in death, neither
in flesh nor in spirit.
So you think you have found the solution But it’s just another illusion.
Some people got everything Some poeple got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means
Some people got facts and claims Some peole got pride and shame Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside Some people can’t stand up strong
Some people won’t wait for long
In this age of technological inhumanity
Scientific atrocity,
Atomic mis-philosophy,
Nuclear mis-energy It’s a world that forces lifelong insecurity
Which man can save his brother soul Oh man it’s just self control Don’t gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold
They don’t want to see us unite ‘Cause all they want us to do is Keep on fussing and fighting
They don’t want to see us
live together I tell you all they want us to do is Keep on killing one another
See them fighting for power
But they know not the hour
So they bribing with Their guns, spare-parts and money
Trying to belittle our integrity
Thru political strategy They keep us hungry. A hungry mob is an angry mob.
Every man gotta right To decide his own destiny And in this judgment There is no partiality
To divide and rule Could only tear us apart In everyman chest There beats a heart
we won’t shed no tears We found a way to cast away the fears
there’ll be no end So old man river don’t dry for me I have got a running stream of love you see So no matter what stages, oh stages, stages Stages they put us thru we’ll never be blue No matter what rages, oh rages, changes. Rages they put us thru, we’ll never be blue
Cause only a fool lean up on, lean upon His own misunderstanding And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent, Been revealed to the babe and the suckling
Cause just like a tree planted planted by the river of water That bringeth forth bringeth forth, fruits in due season Every thing in life got its purpose Find its reason in every season,
Give them an inch they take a yard Give them yard they take a mile Once a man and twice a child And everything is just for a while
This is my invitation I’ve got the special vacation I need your concentration Just to feel your vibration. Soul Shakedown.
Man to man is so unjust, children You don’t know who to trust Your worst enemy could be your best friend And your best friend your worst enemy Some will eat and drink with you Then behind them su-su ‘pon you Only your friend know your secrets So only he could reveal it And who the cap fit, let them wear it
“You are who you show yourself to be, not who you might say you are.”
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
So before you check out your tide Don’t leave another cornerstone Standing there behind
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
So you think you have found the solution
But it’s just another illusion
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
Bless my eyes this morning Jah sun is on the rise once again The way Earthly things are going Anything can happen.
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
See they want to be the star So they fighting tribal war.
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
Herb for my wine, honey for my strong drink.
#BobMarley #Quotes #Quote
Xcuse me while I light my spliff
Oh GOD
I gotta take a lift
Frm reality I just can’t drift
That’s why I am staying with this riff
#BobMarley
“Don’t call yourself a chicken just because you eat my feed; I never said I was endeavoring to feed chickens.”
Some will hate you, pretend
they love you now Then behind they try to eliminate you But who Jah bless, no one curse Thank God we’re past the worse
Hypocrites and parasites Will come up and take a bite And if your night should turn to day A lot of people would run away
Feel it in the one drop And we’ll still find time to rap We’re making the one stop The generation gap So feel this drum beat As it beats within Playing a rhythm resisting against the system Ooh-we I know Jah’d never let us down Pull your rights from wrong
They made the world so hard Everyday we got to keep on fighting Everyday the people are dying From hunger and starvation, lamentation But read it in Revelation You’ll find your redemption And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty For we no want no devil philosophy
She love to party, have a good time She looks so hearty, feeling fine She loves to smoke, sometime shifting coke She’ll be laughing when there ain’t no joke
Every need got an ego to feed
Them belly full but we hungry. A hungry mob is a angry mob. A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough; A pot
a-cook but the food no ‘nough.
Don’t let them fool you Or even try to school you, Oh! No We’ve got a mind of our own So go to hell if what you’re thinkin’ isn’t right
Don’t let them change you Or even rearrange you, Oh! No We’ve got a life to live They say only, only Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive Stay alive
You ain’t gonna miss your water
Until your well runs dry No matter how you treat him The man will never be satisfied
“Maybe if I’d tried to make a heavier tune than ‘Kaya’ they would have tried to assassinate me
People that aren’t involved don’t know it, it’s my work and I know it outside in.
I have to know how to run my life, because that’s what I have and nobody can tell me to put it on the line, you dig?
I feel so high, I even touch the sky Above the falling rain I feel so good in my neighborhood
They say the sun, shines for all But in some people world, it never shine at all
They say love is a stream,
that will Find its course
Some people life is a dream
So they making matters worse
So much have been said, so little been done
They just want to be the leader In the house of the rising sun
They say love is a stream, that will Find its course, and every river runs to sea
Some people still think life is a dream
Every man thinketh his Burden is the heaviest
I’ve got to protect my life, And I don’t want to live with no strife
As a man sow, shall he reap And I know that talk is cheap. So the hotter the battle Is the sweeter the victory. Rise up freedom fighters Rise and take your stance again. ‘Cause he who fight and run away Live to fight another day.
Ya see, in life I know there’s lots of grief
But your love is my relief
The lips of the righteous, teach many But fools die for want of wisdom
Destruction of the soul is vanity,
I don’t wanna rule ya I don’t wanna fool ya I don’t wanna school ya Thngs you, you might never know about
Up a cane river to wash my dread Upon a rock I rest my head There I vision through the seas of oppression Don’t make my life a prison
So through the eyes of the fool, the deaf is wise And through the eyes of the wise, the fool is size
I love to see when You’re dancing from within
It gives great joy to feel Such sweet togetherness Everyone’s doing, and they’re doing their best
Come we go chant down Babylon one more time
Come we go burn down Babylon One more time,
Men see their dreams and aspirations Crumble in front of their face And all their wicked intentions to destroy the Human race.
“If yuh bullbucker, me duppy conqueror.” Jamaican Saying
If any bad forces come to test us, we can conquer them even at a spiritual level: we’re even hard spiritually.
The bars could not hold me Force could not control me, now They try to keep me down But Jah put I around
Yes, I’ve been accused (many a times) And wrongly abused,
I say you’re working iniquity to achieve vanity,
If you are the big tree, We are the small axe. Sharpened to cut you down,
And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord, Shall fall in it,
We neither beg nor we won’t bow Neither can be bought nor sold We all defend the right
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion and rules all creation Yeah,
Until the philosophy which holds one race Superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
That until there is no longer first class And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man’s skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally Guaranteed to all, without regard to race Dis a war
That until that day The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship Rule of international morality Will
remain in but a fleeting illusion To be pursued, but never attained
And until that day, the African continent Will not know peace, we Africans will fight We find it necessary and we know we shall win As we are confident in the victory Of good over evil,
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love) So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation
So we gonna walk, alright, through the roads of creation We’re the generation (Tell me why) trod through great tribulation
We know where we’re going; we know where we’re from We’re leaving Babylon, we’re going to our fatherland
Jah come to break down ‘pression, rule equality Wipe away transgression, set the captives free
Rejected by society Treated with impunity Protected by my dignity I search for reality
“Man you’re getting tipsy” Hiding from reality In your world of hypocrisy
a bubble, Looking for no trouble But if you trouble, trouble We’ll give it to you double
It takes a joyful sound To make the world go round.
Oh, will you quench me while I’m thirsty
Come and cool me down when I’m hot?
Your recipe, darling, is so tasty And you sure can stir your pot
Preacher man don’t tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don’t know what life is really worth Is not all that glitters in gold and Half the story has never been told So now you see the light,
We’re sick and tired of your ism and skism game Die and go to heaven in Jesus’ name, Lord We know when we understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can’t fool all the people all the time
“Positive vibrations man. That’s what makes it work. That’s reggae music. You can’t look away because it’s real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there’s no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that’s all.” -Bob Marley, 1977
If you get down and quarrel everyday You’re saying prayers to the devil, I say Why not help another on the way Make it much easier
Hate is your reward for our love Telling us of your God above
“I want to say ‘I shot the police’ but the government would have made a fuss so I said ‘I shot the sheriff’ instead… but it’s the same idea: justice.” Bob,
We refuse to be What you wanted us to be We are what we are That’s the way it’s going to be, if you don’t know You can’t educate I For no equal opportunity Talking about my freedom People freedom and liberty Yeah, we’ve been trodding on The winepress much too
long
Me say the Babylon System is the Vampire Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and university Deceiving the people continually Me say them graduating thieves and murderers Look out now
I want to disturb my neighbor Cause I’m feeling so right I want to turn up my disco Blow them to full Watts tonight
“How long before we can be seen as just human beings?” The night before there had been a curfew: the youth, who would throw molotov cocktails at the police, had been burning and stealing.
How many rivers do we have to cross Before we can talk to the boss All that we got seems lost We must have really paid the cost
Would you let the system Make you kill your brotherman No dread no
Would you make the system Get on top of your head again
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