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Quotes by Jamaican Authors
"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
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"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."
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"Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining."
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"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
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"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
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"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
"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."
"I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love."
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
"I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody."
"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
"Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay."
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"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."
"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
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