Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

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.

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

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

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

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