My People Lyrics - The Art Of Love And War - Angie Stone

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 

[Chorus] 

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 

[Chorus: x2] 

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 

[Chorus: x2] 

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