James Brown Quotes (64 Quotes)

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

My mom didn't allow us to watch that much television. I was involved in basketball and got home late, then would have homework to do. But I liked Sky King' and Bill Cosby and Robert Culp in I Spy.'

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

This is an area that the chain stores don't bother with. We provide a personal service to the individual looking for a particular book. It may take us a while and a lot of research but we usually deliver.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

A flat fee of 20 a month is unheard of. With this annuity, you don't have the burden of the mortality and expense charge. Over time, this is a huge advantage.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

We need transparency and access to the information being used to make these decisions.

Over the next five years, we'd expect to have eight to 15 companies in our portfolio. And in five years, exiting by selling should create nice returns for our investors. Some will sock it away, but others will look to go into our next fund.

Regardless of what time you change or move or do anything, if it's for a positive effort, it's always a good day to do it.

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Funky' is about the injustices, the things that go wrong, the hungry kids going to school trying to learn,

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Retire for what What would I do I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

The kids played hard coming off Christmas break. Mitch Frei did a great job leading the team.

musical genius.

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

Cause he's not about show business, but he's about soul business. He's why I'm a soul singer.

We try to make your experience easy and comfortable. Life is complicated enough.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

The fatality number in Gibson County is eight. There are 37 injuries with four of those critical.

Thank God for the journey.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Everything is my mistake. I should have done everything on Sunday. I should have gotten gas, barbecue coal, lights, a flashlight. I can only blame myself.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

You only live once.

At Smith, we're hoping to triple or quadruple the numbers of fans at our games.

After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

Life philosophy I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.