"Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away."
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"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."
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"The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell."
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"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."
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"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
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"I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair."
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"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."
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"You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting."
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"The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time."
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"I'm twice as old, but I feel good."
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"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."
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"Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business."
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"Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved."
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