Jamaica quotes
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"Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth."
"Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated."
"When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise."
"In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty"
"In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it."
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"I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there."
"Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage."
"Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty."
"I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me."
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
"I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people."
"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
"What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth."
"Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica."
"The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon."
"In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still."
"I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this."
"I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big."
"I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture."
"There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States."
"To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass."
"So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation."
"Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing."
"Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field."
"I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me."
