What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
Peter ToshRead
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote critiques racial identity in relation to religious teachings and cultural perceptions.
Peter Tosh's quote expresses his discomfort with the way racial identity has been associated with notions of purity and divinity in religious contexts. By highlighting the incongruity of viewing Jesus as a white figure while also invoking racialized imagery, Tosh calls into question the implications of such teachings on self-perception and cultural identity, especially among black individuals who may feel marginalized by these narratives.
Themes
RaceIdentityReligionPurityCulture
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion about race and religion in a community meeting.
More from Peter Tosh
All quotes →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.
Peter ToshRead
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.
Peter ToshRead
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
Peter ToshRead
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
Peter ToshRead
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter ToshRead
Similar quotes
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George WillRead
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
John RuskinRead
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.
Charles Morgan, Jr.Read
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
Andre BretonRead
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.
Ivan VladislavicRead
We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
D. Todd ChristoffersonRead