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

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

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

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

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.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Reality always wins.

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.