If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

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.

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

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

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

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

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

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Celebrate your people's success, not your own.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

The love religion is all that is written here.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.