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Wattstax
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All of us have something to say... |
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but some are never heard. |
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Over seven years ago, |
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and demanded to be heard. |
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On a Sunday this past August |
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over 100,000 black people came together... |
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to commemorate that moment |
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For over six hours, |
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danced, and shouted the living word... |
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in a soulful expression |
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This is a film of that experience... |
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and what some of the people have to say. |
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That's what we did in 1965, |
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and started burning up |
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That brought the man |
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The thing about it was it did something |
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That's the only beautiful thing |
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Thank you, whitey. |
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That's the only way we communicate |
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You've never seen in a community |
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They've opened up |
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There's more black people in Watts... |
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that were formerly on county and state aid |
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Like your mama. |
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Your mama got a job |
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- Dumb-ass motherfucker. |
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- like you, nigger. |
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You lived on 103rd. |
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- He's not responsible. |
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Once half a whitey, nigger... |
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It wouldn't do no good |
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Them motherfuckers ain't buying |
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Shit ain't getting better. |
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They're still putting offices |
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- They're making money off it. |
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You'd be surprised... |
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how much that building, |
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will satisfy so many niggers. |
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- Pacify them a little. |
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make them think it's progress. |
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Up until the point that we had a riot... |
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everybody said, "Those niggers |
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Then when we had a riot, |
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"Something's wrong, 'cause these suckers |
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"Now I got to give these niggers |
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- "I thought they was happy." |
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They've changed some for the best... |
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in an awful lot of cases for the worst... |
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and some they have not changed at all. |
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There's no difference in Watts now |
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California's a weird state because |
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Like, you cross the street, |
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but they don't have laws for people |
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when cops accidentally shoot people. |
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They accidentally shoot more niggers |
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Every time you pick up a paper, |
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How do you accidentally shoot a nigger |
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"Well, my gun fell and just went crazy." |
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It's going to be the best sound, |
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- I can dig it. |
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That's beautiful. I work in sound, also. |
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I'm hip to it. |
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This is the biggest and the best |
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- How many people do you have there? |
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Okay, there'll be one more, |
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Now, of those five people |
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there will be three and two... |
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three on the gate |
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When the gate slows down |
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we may then put three |
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Now, the rest of you gentlemen... |
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As the first Black Queen |
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and the Watts Beauty Pageant... |
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how do you feel about this concert today? |
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It's beautiful. |
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I think it's a very beautiful endeavor. |
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It's beautiful, that's what it is. |
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It's great, what can I tell you? |
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Fantastic. |
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It's a hell of a feeling. |
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I think it's beautiful. |
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Like, shit, |
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Ladies and gentlemen, |
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I don't have a damn thing to fight for, |
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and I don't have no flag. |
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I ain't got a damn thing to fight for, |
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and come back home, |
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- let alone find a motherfucking job. |
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in this country, |
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but you run into more funky |
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Why can't we, as being the people, |
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you know, without political, social |
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be a part of America? |
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- I can say it in one word, brother. |
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- Politics. |
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First time I discovered I was black... |
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was at the Interstate Fair |
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It was one of those things. |
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I was working behind this little counter |
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to knock over the milk bottles. |
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This one cat threw the ball... |
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knocked down two of the milk bottles. |
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One of them was for certain, |
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and he said that I kept it from |
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Called me a black, nasty, lying nigger. |
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My brother... |
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made me realize |
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You dig? He's lighter than I am, right? |
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So we was playing with some people, |
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doing this, doing that, |
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We was playing with some white kids. |
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and they whispered something in his ear. |
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So we went home. We was going home... |
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and my brother jumped up |
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I looked at this sucker 'cause, |
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But these white boys, they identified |
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So he went in and he told my mother |
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and that he was a white boy. |
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You dig? But, see, my mother's bad. |
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My mother checked that out, so she said: |
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"Okay, cool with it. I'm not your mother, |
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When I told my mother what happened... |
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that this white girl had called me a nigger, |
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So she said, "Wait till your father |
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When my old man got home, |
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and he kind of gave me a weird look... |
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and he said, |
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He said, "The next time |
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"just kick their ass. Don't ask no |
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I think like niggers are the best |
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You know what I mean? |
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'Cause they stole the cream of the crop |
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and God, as they say, |
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So he made everybody a nigger |
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about the Watusi, the Huwagada, |
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You know... In different languages. |
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So he brought us all over here... |
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the best, the kings, the queens, |
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shit, and put us all together |
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This is a beautiful day, |
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It is a new day, |
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It is a day of black awareness, |
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It is a day of black people taking care |
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Today we are together, |
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We are unified and on one accord, |
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'Cause when we are together, |
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and we can make decisions, |
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Today, on this program |
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and rhythm and blues, and jazz, |
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All those are just labels, |
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All of our people got a soul, |
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Our experience determines the texture... |
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the taste, and the sound of our soul, |
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We say that we may be in the slum... |
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but the slum is not in us, |
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We may be in prison... |
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but the prison is not in us, |
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In Watts, we have shifted from, ; |
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"Burn, baby, burn, |
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We have shifted from having a seizure... |
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about what the man got... |
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to seizing what we need, |
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We have shifted from bedbugs |
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to community control and politics, |
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That is why we gather today... |
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to celebrate our homecoming... |
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and our own sense of somebody-ness, |
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That is why I challenge you now |
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raise your fists together... |
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and engage in our national black litany, |
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Do it with courage and determination, |
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I am... |
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somebody! |
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I am... |
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somebody! |
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I may be poor... |
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but I am... |
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somebody! |
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I may be on welfare... |
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but I am... |
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somebody! |
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I may be unskilled... |
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but I am... |
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somebody! |
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I am... |
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black... |
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beautiful... |
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proud! |
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I must be respected! |
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I must be protected! |
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- What time is it? |
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- When we stand together, what time is it? |
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When we say no more, "Yessuh, boss," |
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- Nation time! |
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Sister Kim Weston, |
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Won't you sing it with me, everybody? |
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We've got some difficult days ahead... |
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but it really doesn't matter with me now, |
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Because I've been to the mountaintop... |
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and I don't mind, |
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Like anybody, I would like to live... |
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a long life, Longevity has its place... |
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but I'm not concerned about that now, |
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I just want to do God's will, |
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And he's allowed me |
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and I've looked over... |
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and I've seen the promised land, |
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I may not get there with you... |
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but I want you to know tonight... |
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that we as a people |
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So I'm happy tonight, |
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I'm not fearing any man, |
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Mine eyes have seen the glory |
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I remember, we used to go to |
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It wasn't a church, you know? |
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And the thing... It used to bug me, man, |
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every place else |
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But in a black neighborhood, man, |
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But when you got in the movie house, |
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I mean, the people got down. |
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and I used to go to a Catholic church, |
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I went to all them other churches, man, |
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in Oakland. And we went up... |
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I went up, and I saw tambourines |
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and drums, and I said, "This is church?" |
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I don't understand this, man. |
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And the people... The preacher got up |
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and I was listening, and I said: |
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"I never heard anybody talk about God |
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This cat started talking |
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And then he got this band |
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and the band started getting into it, man, |
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And I said, "Goddamn!" |
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I'm reminded of the two thieves... |
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nailed beside him, |
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I believe one of the thieves said, ; |
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"If thou be the Christ... |
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"why don't you save thyself and us?" |
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And the other said, ; |
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"Lord... |
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"remember me," The Lord said, ; |
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"This day... |
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"thou shall be with me... |
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"in paradise," |
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I remember he and his 12... |
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on a ship sailing afar, |
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the sky was filled with darkness... |
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the sea was raging... |
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the lightning flashed, the thunder roared! |
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The ship was rocking back and forth, |
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so afraid, |
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And I believe I heard a voice... |
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I believe I hear this voice now, |
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I believe I hear a voice crying out now... |
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I believe I hear this voice crying... |
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saying..., |
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When I hear the choir sing like |
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when my great-grandmother died. |
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I was young, but... |
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the music, it just sets a thing. |
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Every time I hear that song, |
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I start thinking about that. |
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And when they really get to going, |
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I used to dig that, |
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And my people right here |
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I'd be wanting to jump up |
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And then the building beats up, boy, |
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shit, boy, they'd be getting down, |
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And that comes from being black. |
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And now we're going to bring back |
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Let everybody say yeah! |
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I love that gospel. |
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God damn me, blues, |
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and the thing that most black people |
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You know, I used to go to church and shit, |
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but black people know God personally. |
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right? Or Jesus, at least, right? |
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"Jesus Christ? Shit, man, he live |
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"Shit, tell me. I know peoples. |
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"I study peoples. |
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"See, I used to be in the FBI. |
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"I'm the first colored person |
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"J. Edgar Hoover appointed me |
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"That's right. He wanted somebody |
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"See, 'cause nobody in the Bureau |
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"See, I spoke to them. They'd be..." |
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I'd say, "What you say, motherfucker? |
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"They'd tell me." |
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Well, listen, we all know |
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We really want you to have a great time, |
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We're here to commemorate |
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that started the movement... |
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and was one of the milestones |
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Some folks may find it a little strange |
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we sing, and we joke... |
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but we're doing our thing |
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And now, one of the most popular groups |
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The Staple Singers! |
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I think that there's more awareness of... |
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There's more search for awareness |
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as to where we are |
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and what we're going to do with it. |
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I dig the natural. |
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I think the natural |
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for all black people. |
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When I get up in the morning, I'm natural. |
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Kids is what make me feel so good. |
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You see, you're looking at the glory |
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The younger youth |
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to keep going |
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Young, gifted, and black. |
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I be a Democrat every now and then. |
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I be a Muslim, I be a Panther. |
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But I'm always being black. |
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I'm not prejudiced, because |
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if you know what I'm talking about. |
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Black is beautiful because it feels so good. |
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If black is beautiful, white is divine. |
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Now, that nigger's crazy. |
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Don't call you black, you're a Negro. |
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You ever know them dudes? |
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"Say, black boy." |
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"Say, man. What you mean, black? |
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"Baby, I'm colored. |
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"I don't play that shit." |
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My parents was like that. |
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In my neighborhood, |
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would come through the neighborhood, |
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And he'd be, |
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"Remember the essence of life. |
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"We are people of the universe. |
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My parents would go, "That nigger crazy." |
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I used to love to go to the meetings, |
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I got ultra-black for a while. |
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Them brothers be rapping. |
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But the brothers be having emotion. |
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"You see, the first thing you gotta know |
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"Now, you eat a piece of pork... |
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"you don't realize the subtlefications |
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"What the man |
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"you will not understand |
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"will not relinquish |
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"You know what I mean?" |
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Ladies and gentlemen, right about now... |
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the soulful, funky sounds of the Bar-Kays, |
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It's been said many times |
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that freedom is a road |
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We would like to invite each of you |
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And perhaps you'll see a side of life |
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I'm the son of a badass! |
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Right now, |
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to get down, |
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Black people rip off one another. |
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I'll tell you which ones rip off |
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It's the ones |
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As simple as that. |
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Sometimes, it seemed the guys |
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I thought they were running the place |
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It was just like them coming in |
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If I can't work and make it, |
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If there was a way a nigger could put |
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A nigger can sell anything. |
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Anytime a brother would shoot |
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then go to his funeral |
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they need to have the police down there. |
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The niggers are NAACP-ing. |
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And we can't stand that. |
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But pimp, that's why. |
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Anybody that use somebody else to gain, |
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I'll tell you what, |
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Can't nobody pimp you |
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Somewhere along from the day I was born |
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And I'm trying to figure out in my mind, |
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I mean, a riot that's gonna include |
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in order to get this thing going |
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We're tired of gaming, man. |
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We wants jobs and, we wants everything, |
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It's not getting out and confronting, |
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because right now he's got the power, |
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What we got to do, |
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I'm not gonna get up on Front Street |
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You be fronting yourself off every time |
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You see the brother pushing pushcarts. |
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See the brother standing up. |
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But you know what you got to deal with? |
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Once you get a job, nigger, be respectful. |
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This is the Age of Aquarius. |
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"Shit! Man, get a job? |
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"What the fuck you talking? |
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"I went down. |
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"I went down |
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"You dig? |
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"I just got out the joint. |
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"I'm in the joint, |
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"the bitch telling me, |
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"I said, 'Pressing license plates.' |
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"Where you gonna find a job for a nigger |
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"And I'm |
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"You dig? |
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"Old bitch has got a tiara |
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"Old, ugly white whore |
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"Bitch got funky with me. |
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"'Kiss my ass. And your mama, too."' |
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You know what I learned |
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- That you got to... |
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...stay out the penitentiary. |
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And this number's |
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to all of the blues lovers, |
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And to all of those |
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We're gonna learn them to you, |
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'cause we'll be around for a while, |
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You know how much shit |
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I done had three mothers in my life. |
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That's why I think... |
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you see a man walking down the street |
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walking down the street |
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he'll stand in front of the mirror and say: |
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"Ricky, what are you doing?" |
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And he'll say, "Doo doo da doo," and start |
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I like the blues. I don't like the jazz. |
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The blues. |
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People have to have something |
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I don't mean tomorrow, but right now. |
| 00:47:27 |
The blues is past tense. |
| 00:47:30 |
That's the black man's cousin, the blues. |
| 00:47:32 |
- I've been down so long... |
| 00:47:35 |
...that getting up |
| 00:47:38 |
Yes, I've had the blues. |
| 00:47:40 |
I've had men |
| 00:47:43 |
And they have |
| 00:47:47 |
And there you are, standing there |
| 00:47:50 |
Just like if you had an old car, |
| 00:47:55 |
This is what I've experienced |
| 00:47:59 |
Not just being in love. |
| 00:48:02 |
Although, that's |
| 00:48:05 |
You know what I told her |
| 00:48:08 |
I said, "Honey, I done married again. |
| 00:48:10 |
"I got me a good wife, |
| 00:48:14 |
Yes, sir. "Forget about you." |
| 00:48:16 |
'Cause that's all I wanted of her, |
| 00:48:19 |
But I loved her, boy. |
| 00:48:23 |
I'd work, I'd buy... I'd wear jeans, boy. |
| 00:48:28 |
I ain't lying. |
| 00:48:30 |
$200 and $500 bracelets, |
| 00:48:33 |
Singing in the choir. |
| 00:48:35 |
And I got two jobs |
| 00:48:38 |
You know that? |
| 00:48:41 |
You take care of business, |
| 00:48:43 |
Who? Do you know she was pretty? |
| 00:48:47 |
Man, she had my nose open. |
| 00:48:52 |
- So I see that. |
| 00:48:54 |
I tell you what. And right today... |
| 00:48:57 |
every time I think about it, |
| 00:49:00 |
I used to cry over her. |
| 00:49:03 |
I ain't lying. Sometime I'd be at the job... |
| 00:49:06 |
and I had to go |
| 00:49:08 |
They'd ask me, |
| 00:49:10 |
And I wouldn't tell them. |
| 00:49:12 |
I didn't want nobody to know |
| 00:49:15 |
I loved her, man. I ain't lying. |
| 00:51:51 |
Did she hurt you bad, man? |
| 00:51:52 |
She tore me up. |
| 00:51:56 |
She turned me against |
| 00:52:00 |
as far as life is concerned for me. |
| 00:52:03 |
Can't nobody give a sister |
| 00:52:06 |
That's the blues. |
| 00:52:08 |
You ever had a woman that you loved, |
| 00:52:12 |
that you really felt like |
| 00:52:16 |
And along come one of them old hip dudes |
| 00:52:20 |
If you didn't have the blues then... |
| 00:52:22 |
you're right, |
| 00:52:25 |
A lot of people talk about Jody. |
| 00:52:29 |
You know who Jody's supposed to be. |
| 00:52:32 |
Jody is that fella... |
| 00:52:35 |
that when you leave home... |
| 00:52:37 |
at 6:00... |
| 00:52:39 |
he's in your house at 6:01. |
| 00:52:46 |
I want everybody to get in on this thing, |
| 00:52:55 |
- You all feel it over there? |
| 00:53:04 |
You all feel it over here? |
| 00:53:07 |
I'm gonna tell you all |
| 00:55:26 |
Just wait a minute, |
| 00:55:27 |
Honey, do you know Jody? |
| 00:55:35 |
All the girls that know Jody, |
| 00:56:19 |
Johnnie Taylor, |
| 00:56:23 |
You ever try to get in after hours? |
| 00:56:26 |
with a blue window, |
| 00:56:29 |
Right, you could look through. |
| 00:56:31 |
You remember that? The Blue Note. |
| 00:56:33 |
You'd be checking, |
| 00:56:37 |
They'd be getting down. |
| 00:56:39 |
You'd try, "Curtis, you going in, brother? |
| 00:56:44 |
"Guess... |
| 00:56:48 |
"Fuck you, then. You don't have |
| 00:56:51 |
"Come on, do something. You bad? |
| 00:56:53 |
"I'm bullshitting, brother. I'm just |
| 00:56:57 |
"I got a little business. You know I'm |
| 00:57:01 |
The dude take you in with him. |
| 00:57:04 |
You have to knock all night. |
| 00:57:07 |
Then the dude open it. "What you want?" |
| 00:57:09 |
"Hank sent me." |
| 00:57:12 |
Then the nigger go off, right? |
| 00:57:15 |
"Say, motherfucker, what you mean |
| 00:57:19 |
"Much money I done spent in here, nigger. |
| 00:57:25 |
Right, then the dude let him in. |
| 00:57:28 |
"Come on in, man. |
| 00:57:30 |
"You don't gotta talk to me like that. |
| 00:57:32 |
"Shit, how old are you, boy?" |
| 00:57:33 |
You have to lie. I say, "19." |
| 00:57:37 |
Then you go in the back room. |
| 00:57:39 |
White cats in Vegas. I was in Las Vegas. |
| 00:57:43 |
"$2,000 on the five. |
| 00:57:46 |
"Oops, I missed. Gosh, gee whiz." |
| 00:57:48 |
Niggers be talking about, "Hump, baby. |
| 00:57:51 |
"Shit. Bet I do it over tom-tom. |
| 00:57:56 |
"Save that nigger. Shit. |
| 00:58:00 |
"Bar. Bet the bar. Off-time. |
| 00:58:03 |
"I'm trying to make me some money. |
| 00:58:06 |
"I'm hungry for hog meat. Slap, Jesus. |
| 00:58:09 |
"Shit. Gotta be a Jesus |
| 00:58:13 |
"Nigger, what, boy? I ain't got no money. |
| 00:58:16 |
"Get up off me, motherfucker. |
| 00:58:19 |
"Shit, I'm trying |
| 00:58:23 |
"If I six, we're going to have a new |
| 00:58:27 |
"Borrow what, man? |
| 00:58:30 |
"I'm going to pay you. |
| 00:58:31 |
"Goddamn. Nigger won't leave me alone. |
| 00:58:35 |
"Get me a beer or something, boy. |
| 00:58:39 |
You know, the nigger be, |
| 00:58:44 |
"Boy, you check that seven. |
| 00:58:49 |
"He hit the dice. Nigger ain't fade nobody. |
| 00:58:51 |
"Shit. Fucked up my money. Jive turkey. |
| 00:58:57 |
"Shit. Brother, what's happening? |
| 00:59:01 |
"This nigger was down, fucking around. |
| 00:59:04 |
"Let me have $2. Give me $2. |
| 00:59:09 |
"Want to buy a radio? |
| 00:59:12 |
"Dig, mama, it got 16 channels. |
| 00:59:15 |
"Fuck you, too, nigger." |
| 01:00:35 |
I love black women. I'm black. |
| 01:00:37 |
All black women are my sisters, man. |
| 01:00:39 |
The way the brother walks is beautiful. |
| 01:00:44 |
The way he abuses me is beautiful. |
| 01:00:48 |
The way he makes love to me is beautiful. |
| 01:00:52 |
She's behind me 100%. |
| 01:00:57 |
And whatever I do... |
| 01:00:58 |
she go right along with me |
| 01:01:01 |
with no doubts in her mind... |
| 01:01:02 |
because she know that I'm positive, |
| 01:01:05 |
and that I'm going to try |
| 01:01:08 |
I have to be the lead horse. |
| 01:01:11 |
Not in charge, but I got to be |
| 01:01:14 |
You think you're the boss |
| 01:01:17 |
I know I'm the boss. |
| 01:01:20 |
Your old lady's so bad, |
| 01:01:23 |
No, the black woman has always been |
| 01:01:29 |
I'd say I prefer an older broad |
| 01:01:33 |
because the understanding is here |
| 01:01:36 |
A lot of people think with their mouth |
| 01:01:42 |
But you're gonna get her physically first. |
| 01:01:44 |
No, mentally, brother. Go for the head. |
| 01:01:46 |
The first thing that's gonna attract you |
| 01:01:49 |
Ain't no sense in taking no head |
| 01:01:52 |
When a woman steps out the door, |
| 01:01:57 |
If she can accept it, it's beautiful. |
| 01:01:59 |
Let me tell you the truth. |
| 01:02:01 |
than both of you cats |
| 01:02:03 |
We're not ready for all this bullshit |
| 01:02:07 |
We not taking it anymore like we used to. |
| 01:02:09 |
That mean I have sex |
| 01:02:13 |
between the hour of 7:00 in the morning |
| 01:02:17 |
Now that nigger's crazy. |
| 01:02:20 |
Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 01:02:24 |
the lady that did such a wonderful job |
| 01:02:28 |
this morning of the Watts Festival... |
| 01:02:31 |
Miss Gee Whiz, |
| 01:04:26 |
All right, |
| 01:04:27 |
I remember the time I was a kid. |
| 01:04:28 |
My dad would hide |
| 01:04:31 |
when a bill collector |
| 01:04:34 |
My mom would have to go to the door |
| 01:04:36 |
She'd tell him a lie or curse him, whatever |
| 01:04:40 |
My daddy would hide in the back. |
| 01:04:43 |
This went on years past that time. |
| 01:04:47 |
Black women would always be the man, |
| 01:04:51 |
When it comes to confrontation |
| 01:04:54 |
the black male was always kind of afraid |
| 01:04:59 |
And the woman had to face him. |
| 01:05:00 |
That is the problem that stems between |
| 01:05:04 |
today, because she wants to control and |
| 01:05:09 |
He cannot survive and get free... |
| 01:05:12 |
under the same thing that his mama |
| 01:05:16 |
way back there, when she had to do it |
| 01:05:19 |
Usually a black man |
| 01:05:23 |
Now they're coming up forward |
| 01:05:27 |
You let me find me a good black man. |
| 01:05:30 |
I always said I'd never fight over a man, |
| 01:05:34 |
the bitch can't say shit to me. She |
| 01:05:37 |
The one thing |
| 01:05:40 |
All the black women that there is... |
| 01:05:42 |
I don't understand why they would... |
| 01:05:46 |
prefer white women, or whatever... |
| 01:05:52 |
when there're lots of black women... |
| 01:05:55 |
who can do more... |
| 01:05:58 |
than a white woman. |
| 01:06:03 |
A white girl that digs black brothers... |
| 01:06:06 |
that want a black brother... |
| 01:06:09 |
I done had experience with a few of them. |
| 01:06:14 |
In his soul, in his heart... |
| 01:06:16 |
in his spirit, in his being... |
| 01:06:19 |
he does not actually feel |
| 01:06:22 |
'cause the white woman ain't hip |
| 01:06:25 |
You dig what I mean? |
| 01:06:26 |
The white woman ain't hip |
| 01:06:30 |
A brother can play tricks |
| 01:06:32 |
and she can't cope with it. |
| 01:06:35 |
But there are certain tricks |
| 01:06:38 |
If you get out there and pick up |
| 01:06:41 |
don't think you gonna get a whole lot, |
| 01:06:44 |
You're not. That's why I condemn |
| 01:06:48 |
that get out there and get whitey, |
| 01:06:51 |
Some niggers I know like Chinese women. |
| 01:06:55 |
Ladies and gentlemen... |
| 01:06:57 |
let's meet and greet... |
| 01:07:00 |
Mr, Rufus Thomas! |
| 01:07:34 |
- Can I ask you something? |
| 01:07:36 |
- I said, can I ask you something? |
| 01:07:40 |
Ain't I'm clean? |
| 01:07:55 |
Fellas! Thank you, |
| 01:07:59 |
- You all ready for it? |
| 01:08:00 |
- You all ready for it? Here it is! |
| 01:11:31 |
Hey, Mr, Rufus Thomas! |
| 01:11:33 |
Come on, Rufus, tell them about it, |
| 01:11:36 |
- Tell them about it! |
| 01:11:39 |
Yeah! |
| 01:11:42 |
All right, I want everybody..., |
| 01:11:44 |
Don't want nobody on the field, not yet, |
| 01:11:51 |
Now when I tell you to get on the field... |
| 01:11:54 |
then you get on the field, |
| 01:11:58 |
Then I just might get out |
| 01:12:03 |
All right, Here we go, |
| 01:12:59 |
You all ready? |
| 01:13:05 |
Okay, here we go, |
| 01:14:16 |
You all ready? |
| 01:14:19 |
- You all ready? |
| 01:14:21 |
Okay, here we go, |
| 01:16:07 |
Now, wait a minute, |
| 01:16:11 |
We all together out here, |
| 01:16:13 |
We all gonna have some fun, |
| 01:16:16 |
But you ain't supposed to have your fun |
| 01:16:20 |
You're supposed to be in the stands, |
| 01:16:23 |
More power to the folks |
| 01:16:37 |
And I wish the mike cord |
| 01:16:39 |
I'd go in the stands with you, |
| 01:16:40 |
More power to the folks |
| 01:16:43 |
Ain't no problem at all, fellas, |
| 01:16:45 |
It ain't what you got, it's what you know |
| 01:16:52 |
So all of you, will you please..., |
| 01:16:56 |
please go to the stands, |
| 01:16:59 |
Please, With a capital "P," |
| 01:17:05 |
Come on, you all, please go to the stands, |
| 01:17:09 |
That's right, Might be a little slow, |
| 01:17:13 |
So, how about it, brother? |
| 01:17:18 |
Power to the folks! Let's go to the stands, |
| 01:17:21 |
Power to the people! |
| 01:17:25 |
Please go to..., Don't jump the fence |
| 01:17:31 |
You and that upside-down umbrella, |
| 01:17:37 |
He don't mean to be mean, |
| 01:17:43 |
Look, you ain't no Indian, lady, but |
| 01:17:50 |
Now whatever you do now, please, |
| 01:17:53 |
Now, will you please hold what you got? |
| 01:18:02 |
Yeah, that's a brother, all right, |
| 01:18:09 |
Yeah, that's a brother, all right, |
| 01:18:24 |
Somebody told him he's cute |
| 01:18:29 |
Standing there, looking just like the thing |
| 01:18:41 |
See, the good part about it... |
| 01:18:44 |
the very good part about all that, |
| 01:18:50 |
But if you go out there |
| 01:18:52 |
then want to try to whoop |
| 01:18:54 |
See, he's got his fists up now, |
| 01:19:05 |
And that's what you call our black brother, |
| 01:19:08 |
You all got out there and get him off, |
| 01:19:17 |
Just take him right on off |
| 01:19:21 |
They'd arrest me, especially at night. |
| 01:19:24 |
Niggers have to be home by 11:00, |
| 01:19:26 |
And you'd be trying to get home. |
| 01:19:29 |
Always they'd catch you out |
| 01:19:32 |
'cause you be taking shortcuts, right? |
| 01:19:33 |
Cops: "Put your hands up, black boy!" |
| 01:19:37 |
You panic. "All right, don't move!" |
| 01:19:39 |
You be scared to death. |
| 01:19:41 |
"There ain't no wall." "Find one. |
| 01:19:44 |
"Put the handcuffs on him, Fred." |
| 01:19:45 |
They put the handcuffs on, |
| 01:19:47 |
They'd slip off |
| 01:19:49 |
"All right. Put them on his ankles |
| 01:19:52 |
They handcuffed my thighs, right? |
| 01:19:55 |
Then they call my father |
| 01:19:58 |
"Mr. Pryor, we have your son |
| 01:20:00 |
"What about it?" "Fuck him." |
| 01:20:03 |
You know. |
| 01:20:04 |
And my mother'd have to beg him |
| 01:20:07 |
"Please, Bucky, go get him." |
| 01:20:09 |
"I told him to be home at 11:00, |
| 01:20:11 |
"Goddamn, every time I turn around, |
| 01:20:14 |
"I'm tired of getting him out." |
| 01:20:15 |
I'd be praying he'd have a heart attack |
| 01:20:18 |
'cause he'd put some shit on you. |
| 01:20:19 |
"I'm gonna get your ass out. |
| 01:20:23 |
"How much is it, man? |
| 01:20:26 |
"And you know I'll get your ass. |
| 01:20:29 |
And my mother be crying: |
| 01:20:32 |
I'd say, "Yeah, let him beat your ass." |
| 01:20:56 |
Here he comes, |
| 01:20:57 |
This is the man |
| 01:20:59 |
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr, Luther Ingram! |
| 01:24:16 |
I can't believe |
| 01:24:17 |
Yeah. Everybody mess around. |
| 01:24:20 |
What's to keep your old lady |
| 01:24:22 |
Some of your best relationships |
| 01:24:26 |
because they aren't able |
| 01:24:32 |
I fall in love seven days a week |
| 01:24:35 |
What's your old lady's name, man? |
| 01:24:37 |
That ain't none of your business |
| 01:24:39 |
What do you mean, "What's her name?" |
| 01:24:41 |
No, man, you say your old lady's beautiful, |
| 01:24:45 |
You might know her already. That's why |
| 01:24:48 |
I left my wife all thinking |
| 01:24:53 |
And look here, there wasn't no boyfriend |
| 01:24:56 |
And I come back home. |
| 01:25:02 |
- '69. |
| 01:25:04 |
- She didn't put me out. |
| 01:25:06 |
She hired her a van line and moved. |
| 01:25:08 |
I don't mess around |
| 01:25:11 |
who are married, you know? |
| 01:25:13 |
When I go by there, |
| 01:25:15 |
But I figure there's enough |
| 01:25:17 |
for a brother who's supposed to be your |
| 01:25:21 |
Don't mess with someone's old lady. |
| 01:25:22 |
All of them, I respect them |
| 01:25:26 |
The old lady, if she forced me into a thing, |
| 01:25:31 |
man, I wouldn't punk out. I'd rip her, but... |
| 01:25:34 |
I know one thing. |
| 01:25:37 |
I'd always try to stay out |
| 01:25:39 |
Have you ever, in your life... |
| 01:25:41 |
had to jump out of a window |
| 01:25:43 |
Have you been caught in a bed |
| 01:25:45 |
Yes, I have. |
| 01:25:46 |
- Is that where you got this from? |
| 01:25:49 |
The lineup. See, the lineup, man, |
| 01:25:51 |
I used to be in Peoria, it's a small town. |
| 01:25:53 |
I'd be in the lineup for entertainment |
| 01:25:56 |
'cause there wasn't nothing to do. |
| 01:25:58 |
'Cause ugly white women |
| 01:26:01 |
"A nigger raped me." |
| 01:26:04 |
"Are you sure?" |
| 01:26:06 |
They'd go round up some niggers. |
| 01:26:08 |
"You were down last week. |
| 01:26:11 |
"Come on down again, will you? |
| 01:26:14 |
It was a lot of fun unless you got picked. |
| 01:26:19 |
And then always at line up, you know, |
| 01:26:22 |
It'd be like acting to me. I loved it. |
| 01:26:23 |
But some dudes |
| 01:26:26 |
The lights be, you know... |
| 01:26:31 |
"All right, what's your name?" |
| 01:26:34 |
"What's happening? |
| 01:26:37 |
"I mean what am I charged with? |
| 01:26:42 |
"I ain't did nothing, man. |
| 01:26:46 |
"I went out to the bank. |
| 01:26:47 |
"No, man, my mother told me... |
| 01:26:50 |
"My mama said, 'Pick the car up |
| 01:26:54 |
"So, I got in the car, |
| 01:26:57 |
"I didn't know what was happening. |
| 01:26:59 |
"This white lady was sitting next to me, |
| 01:27:01 |
"I thought it was a stickup." |
| 01:27:18 |
There are specific instructions... |
| 01:27:20 |
when Isaac Hayes comes on, |
| 01:27:23 |
If the barrier is broken... |
| 01:27:26 |
Isaac will be immediately |
| 01:27:29 |
and will not be allowed to return, |
| 01:27:32 |
You must keep your seats, |
| 01:27:34 |
Do we want to see Isaac Hayes? |
| 01:27:36 |
- Yeah! |
| 01:27:41 |
we are now about to bring forth... |
| 01:27:46 |
a bad... |
| 01:27:49 |
bad..., I'm a preacher, I can't say it, |
| 01:27:55 |
We're getting ready to bring right now... |
| 01:27:58 |
the brother all of us have been waiting for! |
| 01:28:06 |
The one we've been waiting for! |
| 01:28:09 |
A bad, bad... |
| 01:28:13 |
brother! |
| 01:28:15 |
Isaac Hayes! |
| 01:31:42 |
Thank you, Right on, Thank you, |
| 01:31:45 |
Yeah, |
| 01:31:48 |
Saturday night though was... |
| 01:31:51 |
'cause white folks go out about 8:00 |
| 01:31:55 |
And leave it to the niggers, |
| 01:31:58 |
They can't handle it. |
| 01:32:00 |
When they found out niggers could talk |
| 01:32:03 |
they got scared to death. |
| 01:32:05 |
Like one day somebody said: |
| 01:32:07 |
- "I've been wanting to tell you something." |
| 01:32:12 |
Now niggers got a handshake. |
| 01:32:14 |
If you don't learn the handshake, see, |
| 01:32:17 |
Like, you be meeting a nigger, |
| 01:32:22 |
But then, niggers add. |
| 01:32:25 |
You know, they'd be... |
| 01:32:27 |
Be all down here, "Hey..." |
| 01:32:30 |
If you don't do that, you ain't no nigger. |
| 01:32:31 |
Dude be, "You ain't black, motherfucker. |
| 01:32:36 |
I can go anywhere |
| 01:32:38 |
and see another black man |
| 01:32:41 |
And there's unity there, |
| 01:32:43 |
There's a beauty that |
| 01:32:46 |
You can take black people |
| 01:32:49 |
that have obviously come |
| 01:32:51 |
during the course |
| 01:32:54 |
But they're still a brother, |
| 01:32:55 |
But we grow up together, you know? |
| 01:36:11 |
I thank you for your tolerance |
| 01:36:15 |
because we know this whole occasion |
| 01:36:19 |
The good master helps them |
| 01:36:22 |
Right on, |
| 01:36:24 |
I am... |
| 01:36:27 |
somebody! |
| 01:36:33 |
I may be on welfare... |
| 01:36:36 |
but I am... |
| 01:36:37 |
somebody! |
| 01:36:39 |
I may be unskilled... |
| 01:36:42 |
but I am... |
| 01:36:44 |
somebody! |
| 01:36:45 |
I am... |
| 01:36:47 |
black... |
| 01:36:48 |
beautiful... |
| 01:36:50 |
proud! |
| 01:36:51 |
I must be respected! |
| 01:36:54 |
I must be protected! |
| 01:36:57 |
- What time is it? |
| 01:36:59 |
- When we stand together, what time is it? |
| 01:37:03 |
When we say no more, "Yessuh, boss," |
| 01:37:05 |
Nation time! |
| 01:37:07 |
- What time is it? |
| 01:39:02 |
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