Top 775 Quotes & Sayings by Jamaican Authors - Page 13

People love self-deprecating humor.

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.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

I've seen the harshest of reggae purists come give me my props because I've been at it for so long... They've seen me come from the hardest of hard-core dancehall to where I am, and they've heard my music change through the years. Some might not agree, but they respect.

Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.

When something really affects you, it's hard to find the humor in it sometimes. There's are a lot of reasons why there are so many white male comedians, but I think part of it is that they are able to joke about a lot of things because a lot of things don't affect them personally.

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.

With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to have black representation on television. That response is so overwhelming and so strong that I just have to express my own gratitude for it, because I understand the necessity for it.

LeBron and Durant hang out all the time; fans are loyal and they get a little upset when they hear those things, but they need to realize that both are pushing each other really hard to be better.

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

Nothing is more embarrassing than calling someone the wrong name, but nothing is harder than trying to pretend you know someone's name when you don't.

Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

I live my life very clean and transparent - so I have nothing to hide.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

He saved me from being somebody else. I could have been prime minister, I could have been a prostitute on the streets, but I am what I am and Bob has a lot to do with that.

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.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

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.

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.

If anyone wants to ask a question or to suggest something, I'm always open.

I like music when it makes you feel.

On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

You start off slowly, getting 'better and 'better, getting that confidence in yourself. It brought that out of me which I had inside but, you know, didn't want to express it - but as a captain you have to.

PBS was just such an awesome resource for a child's early development. And now I realize Mister Rogers is also an awesome resource for an adult's development because his philosophies are just timeless and are so relevant and are so important and are so simple and just something we can all grasp onto easily.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

It has always been the wish of Bob Marley to return to Ethiopia and become a Rastafarian.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

India is a great place.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

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

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

I felt like I was seeing my life over again when I first arrived in Ghana. I thought, 'This is part of me.' I knew what it was like to be poor and hungry.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.