Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

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.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.