203 Quotes by Jamaican authors

Jamaican sayings carry the easy swing of yard talk and the iron of hard truths. They braid humor with warning, prayer with protest, and daily life with the wide sea. In proverb and lyric, elders spar with youth, lovers tease fate, and struggle keeps a grin. Expect patois that snaps like drum-skins, riddles tucked in mango shade, and a conscience tuned to justice. These voices bless perseverance, mock vanity, cherish kinship, and dance, always, between sun-hot joy and rain-fed reflection.

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"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

Peter Tosh, Musician

Small: Peter Tosh

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Dreams are free. Goals have a cost. While you can daydream for free, goals don't come without a price. Time, effort, sacrifice, and sweat. How will you pay for your goals?"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Man is a universe within himself"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"With confidence, you have won before you have started"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Tell the children the truth"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"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"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow"

Bob Marley, Musician

Small: Bob Marley

"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"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"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Small: Marcus Garvey

"Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"I don't think limits"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences"

Peter Tosh, Musician

Small: Peter Tosh

"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

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