Marley (2012)

Bob Marley: Self

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• Bob Marley : [historical footage]  My father is a white and my mother black. Now them call me half-caste or whatever. Well, me don't deh pon nobody's side. Me don't deh pon the black man's side nor the white man's side. But, upon God's side, the man who create me, who cause me to come from black and white.

• Bob Marley : [historical footage]  Well in Trench Town now you find all talent in Jamaica come from Trench Town. And it's a place where they used to take the slaves there, you know. So, it carry a heavy vibration.

• Interviewer : [historical footage]  Are you a rich man?

  Bob Marley : What you mean rich? What you mean?

  Interviewer : Do you have a lot of possessions? A lot of money in the bank?

  Bob Marley : Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life - forever.

• Bob Marley : [historical footage]  Africa is our heaven. Because, that's where we come from.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording - last lines]  I don't really have no ambition you know. I only have one thing I'd really like to see happen. I'd like to see Mankind live together. Black, white, Chinese, everyone. You know what I mean? That's all.

• Interviewer : [historical footage]  How did it all start? Has music always been a part of your life, from when you were a little boy?

  Bob Marley : Yeah. Growing up in a musical family, grandfather, mother, uncle, sister, picky, everything.

  Interviewer : What part of Jamaica?

  Bob Marley : St. Ann's, you know, it's in the country, a little place in the hills, you know.

• Bob Marley : [historical footage]  You see, I personally know my heart can be as hard as a stone and yet soft as water.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording]  You see, I can't deal with the Western ways of life. If I must live by law, it must be the laws of His Majesty. If it's not the laws of His Majesty, then I can make my own law.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording]  When you have political violence, the youth fighting against the youth, for the politicians, then I really feel sick. See, I find none of them really do anything good for the people. It's divide and rule.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording]  Election? You know what I mean, whoever wins it's going to be the same problem.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording]  What is to be must be.

• Bob Marley : [historical footage]  My life, non important to me. But, other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people.

• Bob Marley : [historical recording]  Christ promised to mankind that Him will return within 2000 years and when Him return, Him will be King of Kings through the lineage of King Solomon and King David. Now we look out there to see who is this. One man, Haile Selassie I the first.