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Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud

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protests, Will, the African-American male lead attempts to hold a protest (ironically, Will and his cousin Carlton are the only black people in the room) to get a popular teacher reinstated, he inspires "Cornflake", a white fellow student, who stands up and shouts passionately "Fight the Power Will!
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The lyrics "We've been 'buked and we've been scorned/ We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you're born" in the first verse of the song paraphrase the
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Sing it loud, I'm black and I'm proud", to which Will replies "See, my man Cornflake's got the spirit. He's a little confused but he's got the spirit".
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is performed by a group of young children, who respond to Brown's command of "Say it loud" with "I'm black and I'm proud!" The song was recorded in a
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wryly observed that Brown was a millionaire by that point, as Cobbs retort was "Sing It Low - I'm Black and I'm Poor".
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of "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" appears in long sections of the track "Yesternow" on the
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recites the title phrase at the onset of "Parisian Thoroughfare", the opening track of his album
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and on his 1969 album sharing the title of the song. The song became an unofficial anthem of the
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gives a nod to this song with the lyric "Say it loud, I'm funky and I'm proud."
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I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (1991). "Star Time: Song by Song". In
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The Night Time Is the Right Time (To Be With the One That You Love)
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List of songs that sample "Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud"
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included "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" in their
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Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America
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Index

Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)

Single
James Brown
A Soulful Christmas
Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud
B-side
Vox Studios
Los Angeles
Genre
Funk
Label
King
Songwriter(s)
Alfred Ellis
Producer(s)
James Brown
I Guess I'll Have to Cry, Cry, Cry
Goodbye My Love
"Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pts.1 & 2)"
YouTube
funk
James Brown
bandleader
Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
single
R&B singles chart
Billboard Hot 100
Black Power
trombonist

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