A frowning face can’t bring out the beauty that you are.
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don’t want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.
I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see it.
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
I’m a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I’m doing my best, that my heart’s in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.
With a voice like Ella ringing out there’s no way a band can lose.
Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.
We’re not living in a one-dimensional society. You can’t just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.
The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I’m satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn’t sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.
I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don’t have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.
Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don’t affect their lives because they’re in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God’s word, and yet they’re not rolling the same way in their own lives.
For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it – and thank God.
There’re songs to make you smile, there’re songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won’t be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.