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      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      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      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      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      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      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      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., Dick Gregory   Chris Tucker, Langston Hughes      Reverend Al Sharpton, Katherine Dandrige   Jesse Jackson, Debbie Allen   Woo! Gregory Hines   Benjamin Zephaniah, Robert Pelé   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