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.

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.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

All da ladies love Leo!!

When I was younger, I would eat everything.

The only way to resist colonialism is through education.