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(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black

Nina Simone
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La versione del rapper Common
(ÊTRE) JEUNE, DOUÉ ET NOIR

Être jeune, douée et noir e
Oh quel splendide rêve précieux
Être jeune douée et noire
Ouvre ton coeur à ce que je veux dire

Dans le monde entier, tu le sais
Il y a milliards de garçons et de filles
Qui sont jeunes, doués et noirs
Et ceci est un fait !

Jeunes, doués et noirs
Il faut commencer à dire à nos jeunes
Il y a un monde qui vous attend
C'est une quête qui commence à peine.

Quand tu te sens vraiment à terre
C'est une grande vérité que tu dois connaître
Quand tu es jeune, douée et noire
Ton âme est intacte.

Jeune, douée et noire
Comme je brûle de connaître la vérité
Il y a des moments où quand je regarde en arrière
Je suis hantée par ma jeunesse

Oh mais aujourd'hui ma joie
C'est que nous pouvons tous être fiers de dire
Qu'être jeunes, doués et noirs
C'est là que c'est chouette.
WE ARE YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACK

Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black
Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black

To be young, gifted and black and own it
It's more than a moment
It's like the sun rose to condone it
Before we was trapping we was trapped in
Sun and the whips kissing our black skin
Strange fruit hanging, smell the jasmine
Rock to Coltrane, listen to jazz then, back then
We came with names like James, Fatima
Nina, King, dreamer
Redeemer of the people
Songs for the heaple
Original, spiritual content
You can smell it when it's God-sent
We keep it moving everyday, we the target
The young, gifted and black on the market
Cause of that we pay with our lives
Or either catching charges
But yo, the goddess is in God's ears
Young, gifted and black

Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black
Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black

Mississippi goddam, Ferguson goddam
Staten Island goddam, Baltimore goddam
America damn
I tell you who I am, but you don't understand
Across the waters I swam, son and daughters of the land
Yeah we the black sheep but you slaughtering the lamb
You try to silence with your sirens
Sounds of violence do nothing but divide us
Evolution of revolution retribution, it's due us
The old ways of the US, it ain't the new us
Tell em we the stars, they can't shoot us
Through prisons and wars, you could no longer recruit us
Salvation is due us
Even before we came, God knew us
God knew us
Yeah, God know us

Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black
Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black
Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black
Young, gifted and black
To be young, gifted and black


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