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. James Brown More Quotes by James Brown More Quotes From James Brown 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. James Brown crazy names son The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time. James Brown down-time hardest brown If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again. James Brown adages trying firsts I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was. James Brown brown son thinking I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them. James Brown million-dollars dollars ties I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. James Brown music tunes names For goodness sake, look at those cakes. James Brown cake sake looks 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. James Brown papa hell family Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved. James Brown involved get-involved politics The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell. James Brown horse alcohol white 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. James Brown people son thinking It's a Man's Man's Man's World James Brown men world The economy is changing with an emphasis on technology skills across all sectors. The emphasis now is that not all STEM jobs require four-year degrees. When I was growing up, you had what were called ‘blue collar jobs,’ now you have technicians who need to be highly skilled in tech. You need people who can repair MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines, or work on electric cars, you now need technicians who need to have really hard STEM skills. That’s a skill set that will be growing over the next five years, it will be more in demand, and giving students the foundation for those kinds of careers starts in school. James Brown us For instance, there is a low representation of African American students in engineering. Sometimes you have students who come from backgrounds where there isn’t a relative or a parent who is involved in engineering, so it’s important that these companies and organizations provide mentors who these students can look to and learn from, if these students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds have mentors to learn from, then they are more likely to look into STEM as a possibility, to be excited by STEM in school. James Brown us Education laws change slowly, and change goes both ‘upwards’ from local school districts up to state and federal government and downwards to people like principals and superintendents. James Brown us The challenge of looking at these federal policies is that ‘flat’ is the new ‘up.’ It’s not a substantial increase from what the federal government proposed the year before. It’s a small increase from year to year. James Brown us You only live once. James Brown once live only you I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world. James Brown face racism mother son I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back. James Brown thought good me body
