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“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers…
make sure you hands are clean!”

Bob Marley

Could you be loved
Uprising (1979)
Variant: I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.
Context: Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.

“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”

Bob Marley

Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

“It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.”

Bob Marley

Running Away, from the album Kaya
Song lyrics

“One lifetime is not enough to live”

Bob Marley

“Say you just can't live that negative way
You know what I mean
Make way for the positive day
Cause it's a new day.”

Bob Marley

Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
Disputed

“Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can't drift (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)

Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking.”

Bob Marley

Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqB13iJu2o <br class="br">Song lyrics

“Keep calm and chive on.”

Bob Marley

As quoted in a 1974 interview with Lester Bangs

“Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.”

Bob Marley

Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)
Song lyrics

“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”

Bob Marley

Zion Train
Uprising (1979)

“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”

Bob Marley

&quot;Bob Marley interview on Marijuana&quot; (1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbFOxbPJk from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite

“The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

Bob Marley

Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)

“Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.”

Bob Marley

Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
Song lyrics

“Your life is worth much more than gold.”

Bob Marley

Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics

“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”

Bob Marley

Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
Song lyrics

“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

Bob Marley

Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
Song lyrics

“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”

Bob Marley

As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&amp;feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">The people who are trying to make this world worse aren&#x27;t taking a day off. How can I?

“Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”

Bob Marley

As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"

“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”

Bob Marley

Forever Loving Jah
Uprising (1979)