Bob Marley Quotes

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war"

- Bob Marley, "War"
quoting from H.I.M Haile Selassie I

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.

Emancipate yourself 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.