I'M A RASTAMAN

 I'm a Rastaman 

Not a dreadlock.

Say I'm a Rastaman.

Bob Marley 

PROPHECY

 Reggae music is prophecy in this time.

Bob Marley 

Reggae music is spiritual law in this time. (Bob Marley paraphrased}

A TREE THAT GROW

 
Well you check it now
if you check it now
people drink a lot of alcohol right
and they get drunk right
now when you get drunk you don’t really meditate
your just drunk and you feel miserable
now when we smoke it make you cool
it stimulate your mind and make you sit down and meditate
instead a you get foolish
you sit down and then you can meditate and be someone
herb
rum teach you to be a drunkard and herb teach you to be someone right
I mean too much anything good for nothing
too much a one thing good for nothing
so if you have too much herb it might hurt you right
but earth is a land of a fullness thereof
and herb is a plant
a tree that grow

Bob Marley 

THIS MESSAGE

 This message is for everyone.

Bob Marley 

FIRST OF ALL YA DIG A PIT

Scientists are still there studying and not even listening to what I am saying today

Well what happenin is one destroyin oneself and that will get rid of that

Because if you know how to  make things look good and then make look bad

First of all ya dig a pit then ya dig a pit deep too

One for someone else and one for you

And is not always the needy that will be forgotten and the expectation of the righteous will not perish

Ya know what I mean. 

Bob Marley

Psalms 9:18 King James Version (KJV)

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. 

REALLY LOVE ALL CHILDREN...NO ONE NO SPECIAL

 

Journalist: You don’t feel any closer to say your own son’s than to somebody else, you consider

To tell you the truth..you know..we really love all children..no one no special.

Bob Marley 

Tuffy always by Bob Marley's side. 

READ THE BIBLE

 

The Bible is the most important book in everyone life..people should read it and look over it.

Bob Marley

ME IS A POORMAN

 

I don’t feel like I’m an international celebrity..I’m a farmer who sing a one tune..on an acoustic guitar..me is a poorman..me is a man of the street.

Bob Marley 

MARLEY SHOT

 

Journalist: Did you at any stage ever have feelings for vengeance?

Vengeance? Yes but me out grow it…realize it is madness.

Bob Marley 

SURVIVAL

 SURVIVAL

ENLIGHTENMENT

LIKE LIGHTENING. 

Bob Marley (Milan 1980)

Survival will take us to lofty heights. The powers of the heavens will be shaken. 

(Bob Marley paraphrased)

BREAKUP OF THE WAILERS

Well since Peter and Bunny left

kinna get a little bit tighter

I don’t think is because them leave you know

all I feel is it mostly

because type of vibration we had in the studio

we did have a good vibration you know

Well is my bredrin’

then you know and you don’t supposed to like

your not supposed to feel down over whatever 

happened to you

you must use whatever happened to you as some 

type

upper you know

so if everybody say they don’t want to play 

music 

no more

leave an go on know what I mean

they have to go with it

time go with it

what is to be must be. 

Bob Marley 

CELEBRATING YOUR OWN OPPRESSION

And Christmas... like all these Christmas's 

that cometh in... is the time... what you 

call them... a pig... an force the Christians 

to eat pigs... so this Christmas I want to 

talk about Christmas... this is just 

celebrating your own oppression... you 

know what I mean... a wicked... you know

a very wicked thing... mon... a man force

 you to eat pork... and then every year 

celebrated the day... then make you 

celebrate it an call the day Christmas... 

BOB MARLEY

BOB MARLEY THE MAKING OF A LEGEND

http://www.liveunchained.com/the-legend-behind-the-legend-esther-anderson-on-reggae-rebellion-marley/

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/woman-magazine/Esther_Anderson__Bob_Marley___Me-144065466.html

http://www.theartcollector.org/bob-marley-rebel-prophet-photographs-esther-anderson/

http://www.island-stage.com/issues/island_stage_mag_01_2014.pdf

https://massappeal.com/contact-high-esther-anderson-on-photographing-bob-tuff-gong-marley-circa-1973/

CALLED AND CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL

He cannot die. He is Almighty God. If you say Jesus, people think you all right; if you say Ras Tafari, people think you mad.
Bob Marley 1978

Esther Anderson - So, I would say his conversion was that moment when he had his “vision” as he called it, of Selassie touching him on his forehead. Bob and I went to Nine Miles in St. Ann to visit the place where he was born. He told me stories of his grandfather whom he loved, and of his very young mother who gave birth to him and of his father, a 60 old year old Englishman who left before he was born. He then took me to the top of a hill with a small one room building he had built himself. He said he had gotten into some trouble in Kingston. At the time he had his dreadlocks, but he cut them off to get away from the bad influence around him and came to live again as a farmer. But while working on the building he got tired and fell asleep. He said it was not a deep sleep. He was just resting when he suddenly felt a hand touch him on his forehead. Bob said it was ‘His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie 1’ and a voice inside him said “you are like Jonah — he was in the belly of the whale — Now you must go back into the world and do. my works”.

https://massappeal.com/contact-high-esther-anderson-on-photographing-bob-tuff-gong-marley-circa-1973/

Revelations 17:14

These shall make war with the Lamb,

and the Lamb shall overcome them: 

for he is Lord of Lords, and King of 

Kings: and they that are with him 

are called, and chosen, and faithful.

         

RASTA GOODWILL

Of late The Wailers have been trying to express their Rasta goodwill in action by investing some of the group's profits in community and youth projects, such as farms owned by Jamaican people rather than vast, foreign companies.
It won't solve all problems, but is a beginning. Is something the government shoulda done, but them don't do it and them won't do it.
Bob Marley 

THE REGGAE GROOVE

Reggae music takes its groove from the body

movements of the working farmer ploughing 

the earth and chopping the bushes. 

Bob Marley 1973

                                                        Photo credit Ian Dickson

WE HAVE TO STOP SUFFERING

If I show you a ball, I would have to be a magic man to make that ball a different color. And when you expose a situation, you don't need to expose it again. It's exposed already. To sing about suffering all the time is not a deep thing. We want our people to live good. We don't want to encourage suffering. We want our people to live the way they want to live. We have to stop suffering. 
Bob Marley 1978

RASTAFARI DIRECTION

Haile Selassie restored our ancient roots. That what His Majesty do...He bring consciousness to mankind today-Rastafari direction.
Bob Marley 1980

Photo credit David Burnett

TWELVE SONS OF JACOB

Plenty people read horoscope but all them signs is nothing but Roman gods. That mean is Rome many people dealing with...But when you know you is one of the Twelve Sons of Jacob then you know yourself as an African. MAN IS A WHOLE UNIVERSE IN HIMSELF. 
Bob Marley 1978

Man, we are told, is a universe in himself. Everything in the outside world has its counterpart in man.
Fillmore, Charles. Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (linked TOC) (p. 89). Barefoot Spirituality. Kindle Edition. 

Rome is the center from which the will rules. When the will, guided by sense intellect and the personal idea of ruling power, imprisons the word, binds it in the realm of personal understanding and dictatorship, the activity of Spirit seems inhibited.
Fillmore, Charles. Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (linked TOC) (p. 579). Barefoot Spirituality. Kindle Edition. 

An individualized center of God consciousness. The twelve faculties or ideas in Divine Mind are: faith, strength, wisdom or judgment, love, power, imagination, understanding, will, order or law, zeal, renunciation, and life. Man takes control of his faculties through exercising the will. There are two ways to develop the spiritual
Fillmore, Charles. Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (linked TOC) (p. 210). Barefoot Spirituality. Kindle Edition. 

ONE CUP OF COFFEE

Bob Marley's grandfather Omeriah Malcolm. Second generation coffee farmer. Leader, Farmer and Bush Doctor.

https://www.rococito.com/page6.html

ONE CUP OF COFFEE

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