To Be Young, Gifted & Black Lyrics by Donny Hathaway
Album : Collection , Everything Is Everything
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To be young, gifted, and black
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young, gifted, and black
Open your heart to what i mean, to what i mean

Cause you know
In the whole wide world
There's a million, a million boys and girls
Who are young, gifted, gifted, and black...and its sho'nuff where its at

To be young, gifted, and black
We must begin to tell our young
That there's a whole world, a whole world waiting for you

Haven't you heard the quest has just begun

Don't you know the joy, the joy, the joy of the today
Is the day that we all.....that we all be proud to say
That we are young..., gifted..., gifted and black.. and its sho'nuff where its at
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To be young, gifted, and black   Oh what a lovely precious dream   To be young, gifted, and black   Open your heart to what i mean, to what i mean      Cause you know   In the whole wide world   There's a million, a million boys and girls   Who are young, gifted, gifted, and black...and its sho'nuff where its at      To be young, gifted, and black   We must begin to tell our young   That there's a whole world, a whole world waiting for you      Haven't you heard the quest has just begun      Don't you know the joy, the joy, the joy of the today   Is the day that we all.....that we all be proud to say   That we are young..., gifted..., gifted and black.. and its sho'nuff where its at   "