Jamaican author quotes Quotes

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.What we need is loveTo guide and protect us on.If you hope good down from above,Help the weak if you are strong now.”

“You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.”

“A foolish dog barks at a flying bird”

“Them belly full, but we hungry;A hungry mob is a angry mob.”

“Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.”

“Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”

“So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”

“Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.”

“My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is.”

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

“udge not, before you judge yourself.Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”

“The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.”

“It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.”

“We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff”

“No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.”

“The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special”

“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.”

“Dry your tears, have no fears.”

“One and all have to face reality now.”

“Money can't buy life.”

“I woke up this morning,Smiled at the rising sun,Three little birds,Sat on my doorstep,Singing sweet songs”

“Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.”

“Life must be somewhere to befound, instead of #‎ ConcreteJungle .”

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

“Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier”

“Rise and take your stance once again”

“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.”

“Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!”

“Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.”

“I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.”

“You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.”

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

“It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.”

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

“There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.”

“Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.”

“Every need got an ego to feed.”

“One lifetime is not enough to live”

“to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.”

“Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.”

“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”

“Love would never leave us alone”

“You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave”

“Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.”

“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 believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.”

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