Universal as I stroll down the street   Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me   I used to sport a curl made by Jerry   A Jerry curl   but as time passed it didn't last   after my curl I never combed my doo.   I used to sport a cap but the naps kept shining through.   Shining!   My sista got a brand new perm   my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm   folds at her job loves her new touch up   I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she's all done up.   My sista loves her blackness   but the US. says that her perm is her attractiveness.   But Africa keeps coming stronger-we found out   it ain't a perm it's a temporary   Don't heve sash to go to the music school   no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba   my moms had a record player and the 45's   I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live   scratching it up catching the breaks   spirits within me had me do what it takes   Grammy's I win & one again like my Egyptian kin   it's Africa within makin' something outta nothing!      CHORUS: (x2)   Africa's inside me   taking back her child   she's giving me my pride   and setting me free.      What's that land across those waters?   what's that spirit makin'love to my daughter   telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks   allowing her the choice to twist her hair & make it lock.   yo I don't like it, I just don't like it.   Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin'   and sooner or later Africa's glory and toil   will teach an old dog new tricks   Why and the world can't everybody   recognize that Africa's in everybody?   we all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers   but first we gotta accept who is our mother   Rather embracer of the jungle   or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth   and developments Arrested for nothing   Gumbo's within' soulful H20 men be droppin'   Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins   within' to exist as afro USA...men   residing in Fulani was once Christian.   Start fishin' like FOS and found origin!      CHORUS