Black Beauty lyrics - Ben Harper

(from "Black Boys" soundtrack)

Beautiful, so beautiful

Beautiful, so beautiful

I am an astronaut

I am a president

I am a revolutionary

I'm your neighbor

We are black

We are black

We are beautiful

So beautiful

I'm a son and I'm a daughter

A teacher and a farmer

A race car driver

A poet and an astronomer

We are black

We are black

We are beautiful

So beautiful

Beautiful

Beautiful

From the creator is all of creation

Reimagine your imagination

In the balance the fate of a nation

Fate of a nation, fate of a nation

Evolution without revolution

Breeds a racist institution

Part of the problem or the solution?

Don't pretend not to see and expect absolution

I'm not what you think I am

I'm not what they say I am

I rise up and I take my stand

I am whatever I dream to be

We are black

We are beautiful

So beautiful

We are beautiful

So beautiful

We are black

We are black

We are beautiful

So beautiful

So beautiful

We are black and beautiful

Black and beautiful

Black and beautiful

Black and beautiful

Black and beautiful...