I Am – Somebody
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"I Am - Somebody" is a poem by Reverend Jesse Jackson. According to The Reader's Companion to American History, the poem was written as part of push-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students.
The poem was recited in a somewhat different form in what sounds like a speech by Jackson sampled on the 1973 funk single Same Beat by The J.B.'s. The J.B.'s titled an album and track Damn Right I Am Somebody the following year.
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