"I don't want NOBODY to give me NOTHING, Open up the door, I'll get it MYSELF".
and that's just the NAME of the song...
http://www.funky-stuff.com/jamesbrown/Interviews/Hammer_interview.htm
(Steve) Hammer Interview: James Brown
A chat with the Godfather of Soul (June 1996)
HAMMER: My favorite song of yours is “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door, I’ll Get it Myself).” How did that song come about?JB: That song still remains, because of the fact that there are a lot of things closed to blacks, Hispanics, women. There are a lot of people who think they’re in the system, but they’re really not in the system. Uh, any time an Afro-American kid, 9 or 10 years old, can get up and say “Mama, I think I’m gonna study hard because I want to be president,” and have a shot at being president, then we’ve got America. Other than that, we’ve got a name and we’re trying to find out what it means. Uh, one day, when you can go on any side of town and not be frantic, or curious, about what might happen to you, and be at home at any place in America, we won’t have to worry about “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud).” We won’t have to worry about those songs by, uh, Joan Baez or Janis Joplin and John Lennon, that they made in the Sixties. That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to let people know that, hey, don’t give me nothin’, just open up the door, and if I don’t earn it, then I don’t earn it. I want you to quote me as saying this — “If I become a bum, then let me become a bum by my own choice.” Then, if I become a bum, don’t label me as a nigger bum, just let me be a bum. Now, that’s pride.
HAMMER: Uh...
JB: That didn’t make you jump when I said the word “nigger,” did it?
HAMMER: No, sir.
JB: We’re talking about situations. If we’re talking about the lower South, they called the whites the “crackers.” That still is there, but hopefully we don’t use those words any more. That day should be over with. We should judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin, like Dr. Martin Luther King said. But now, we don’t have to worry about that, they worry about what their social security number is and are they paying taxes.