To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
James Brown
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.
trouble people church joy trying find lose stage thing
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.
people
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
life business home
I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.
money
I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too.. I got a song about that.. But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
war
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.
chance race power education
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
thetimes time
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.
I've been knocked down a lot of times.
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.
family
I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
help
You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
man
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.
prison man
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