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Desmond Dekker

"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."

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Akiroq Brost

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

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Akiroq Brost

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

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Akiroq Brost

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

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Akiroq Brost

"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."

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Akiroq Brost

"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

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Akiroq Brost

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

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Akiroq Brost

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

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Akiroq Brost

"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

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Akiroq Brost

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

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Desmond Dekker
"I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that."

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Desmond Dekker
"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."

Mother

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Desmond Dekker
"Things will get better if you just hold out long enough."

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Desmond Dekker
"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor."

Work

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Desmond Dekker
"I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story."

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Desmond Dekker
"Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts."

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Desmond Dekker
"Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style."

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Desmond Dekker
"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."

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