Brown's classic singles include "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, " "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, " "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, " a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.

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I'm going say it out loud: Dreidel is really a dumb game.

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In soul music, artists such as James Brown with "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" and Marvin Gaye with his album "What's Going On" became spokespersons for the civil rights movement of the late 1960s.

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So I try to be careful to, you know, actually say them out loud before it gets approved, just to avoid that confusion.

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"I think a lot of women feel what you feel but are afraid to say it out loud because as women we are raised in this society to be selfless and to be givers, " she says.

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