I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.
My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.
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.
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.
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
