| My people!
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| Yeah!
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| My people!
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| Yeah!
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| The foundation of the United States
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| Rests on the sweat of my people
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| Every enemy of the USA
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| Has had to face my people on the front lines
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| People, my people are dyin'
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| And we see it all the time
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| Don’t know where our future would be
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| If he’s not here, how do we stay strong?
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| Only we can save us from us
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| Bring about change we will show our people love
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| My people, hold your head up
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| My people, don’t get fed up
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| My people rise, my people fight
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| My people do alright
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| My people walk with pride and
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| We’re marchin' side by side and
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| My people laugh, my people cry
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| My people ride and die
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| People, my people, keep striving
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| There’s a greater master plan
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| We need to know our history
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| We were kings and queens of the greatest dynasty
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| Only we can save us from us
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| Bring about change we will show our people love
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| My people, hold your head up
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| My people, don’t get fed up
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| My people rise, my people fight
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| My people do alright
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| My people walk with pride and
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| We’re marchin' side by side and
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| My people laugh, my people cry
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| My people ride and die
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| My people, hold your head up
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| My people, don’t get fed up
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| My people rise, my people fight
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| My people do alright
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| My people walk with pride and
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| We’re marchin' side by side and
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| My people laugh, my people cry
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| My people ride and die
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| Who are my people? |
| Dr. Vernon Johns
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| Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks
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| Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X
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| Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mohammad Ali
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| Sydney Poitier, Quincy Jones
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| Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey
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| Barrack Obama, Spike Lee
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| Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams
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| Tiger Woods, The Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team
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| We are my people, we are the future
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| My people, hold your head up
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| My people, don’t get fed up
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| My people rise, my people fight
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| My people do alright
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| My people walk with pride and
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| We’re marchin' side by side and
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| My people laugh, my people cry
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| My people ride and die
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| My people, hold your head up
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| My people, don’t get fed up
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| My people rise, my people fight
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| My people do alright
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| My people walk with pride and
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| We’re marchin' side by side and
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| My people laugh, my people cry
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| My people ride and die
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| Harriet Tubman, Shirley Caesar
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| Miss Jane Pittman, Juanita Bynum
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| Maya Angelou, Bishop T.D. Jakes
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| Madam C.J. Walker, Bishop Noel Jones
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| Moms Mabley, Reverend Blake Scott
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| Aretha Franklin, Reverend Jamal Bryant
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| Dorothy Dandridge, Richard Pryor
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| Lena Horn, Samuel Jackson
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| Nancy Wilson, Magic Johnson
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| Mahalia Jackson, Smokey Robinson
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| Sugar Ray Robinson, Nikki Giovanni
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| Adam Clayton Powell, Afeni Shakur
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| The Funk Brothers, Miles Davis
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| Mr. James Brown, 2Pac
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| Bob Marley, Biggie Smalls
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| Billie Holiday, Cathy Hughes
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| Charlie Parker, Betty Shabazz
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| Denzel Washington, Coretta Scott King
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| Morgan Freeman, Angela Davis
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| James Earl Jones, Nat King Cole
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| Curtis Mayfield, Bob Johnson
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| Marvin Gaye, Johnnie Cochran
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| Berry Gordy, Nat Turner
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| Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby
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| Cuba Gooding Jr., **** Gregory
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| Chris Tucker, Langston Hughes
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| Reverend Al Sharpton, Katherine Dandrige
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| Jesse Jackson, Debbie Allen
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| Woo! |
| Gregory Hines
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| Benjamin Zephaniah, Robert Pele
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| Kofi Annan, Luther Vandross
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| Tyler Perry, Wynton Marsalis
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| Zadie Smith, Charles White
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| Pele, Romare Bearden
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| Robert Mugambi, Gordon Parks
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| Omar, John McLean
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| Mariam Makeba, Susan Taylor
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| Soul II Soul, Tom Bail
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| Antwan Fuqua, Damien Marley
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| Trevor McDonald, The Black Stars
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| Angie Stone, Count Basie
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| Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson
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| Bill Clinton, that’s right I said it
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| Y’all know that was the first black man in the White House |