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.

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

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.