Lyrics Angie Stone

Angie Stone

My People

My people!

Yeah!

My people!

Yeah!

The foundation of the United States

Rests on the sweat of my people

Every enemy of the USA

Has had to face my people on the front lines

People, my people are dyin'

And we see it all the time

Don't know where our future would be

If he's not here, how do we stay strong?

Only we can save us from us

Bring about change we will show our people love

R: My people, hold your head up

My people, don't get fed up

My people rise, my people fight

My people do alright

My people walk with pride and

We're marchin' side by side and

My people laugh, my people cry

My people ride and die

People, my people, keep striving

There's a greater master plan

We need to know our history

We were kings and queens of the greatest dynasty

Only we can save us from us

Bring about change we will show our people love

R: (2x)

Who are my people? Dr. Vernon Johns

Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks

Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X

Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mohammad Ali

Sydney Poitier, Quincy Jones

Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey

Barrack Obama, Spike Lee

Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams

Tiger Woods, The Rutgers Women's Basketball Team

We are my people, we are the future

R: (2x)

Harriet Tubman, Shirley Caesar

Miss Jane Pittman, Juanita Bynum

Maya Angelou, Bishop T.D. Jakes

Madam C.J. Walker, Bishop Noel Jones

Moms Mabley, Reverend Blake Scott

Aretha Franklin, Reverend Jamal Bryant

Dorothy Dandridge, Richard Pryor

Lena Horn, Samuel Jackson

Nancy Wilson, Magic Johnson

Mahalia Jackson, Smokey Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson, Nikki Giovanni

Adam Clayton Powell, Afeni Shakur

The Funk Brothers, Miles Davis

Mr. James Brown, 2Pac

Bob Marley, Biggie Smalls

Billie Holiday, Cathy Hughes

Charlie Parker, Betty Shabazz

Denzel Washington, Coretta Scott King

Morgan Freeman, Angela Davis

James Earl Jones, Nat King Cole

Curtis Mayfield, Bob Johnson

Marvin Gaye, Johnnie Cochran

Berry Gordy, Nat Turner

Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby

Cuba Gooding Jr., **** Gregory

Chris Tucker, Langston Hughes

Reverend Al Sharpton, Katherine Dandrige

Jesse Jackson, Debbie Allen

Woo! Gregory Hines

Benjamin Zephaniah, Robert Pele

Kofi Annan, Luther Vandross

Tyler Perry, Wynton Marsalis

Zadie Smith, Charles White

Pele, Romare Bearden

Robert Mugambi, Gordon Parks

Omar, John McLean

Mariam Makeba, Susan Taylor

Soul II Soul, Tom Bail

Antwan Fuqua, Damien Marley

Trevor McDonald, The Black Stars

Angie Stone, Count Basie

Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson

Bill Clinton, that's right I said it

Y'all know that was the first black man in the White House