"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
"I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper."
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Source: James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Book by James Brown, Bruce Tucker, 1986.
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