Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song My People , by - Angie Stone. Song from the album The Art of Love & War, in the genre R&BRelease date: 31.12.2006
Record label: Concord
Song language: English
My People |
| 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., **** 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 |