You ask me how i am the person you see

The bright young girl with a future

Then u ask me how my future’s so bright

I’ll tell you the success i’ve seen in my past

The people who paved my way

The ones who opened doors

The ones who made it so opportunities were possible

We all focus on the little bit of history we know

We fail to forget the part of the book taken away from us

When kings and queens ruled the world

I say why not?

Why not make history repeat itself in an good way

To see the beauty and success

Why not flip the script and overcome

I fail to follow the self lynching of our kind

I fail to become involved in the drugs and lost dreams

For my dreams are much bigger

Bigger than the racism that tears us down

Bigger than the black on black violence that breaks communities

I follow the dreams of those who got theres taken away

I'm giving back

Giving back because i'm powerful

Giving back because i can

Yet, again i say why not?

The road of success is clear

Its up to you to take the trip

The world is all up to you

We no longer focus on what came before

Our selfish ways seem to take the best of us

We’re much more than what society portrays

So from now till the day my book closes

My answer on who i am today

Will be told through the ancestors who paved my way

But, still again you ask me who i am

I am the success of my past

The success that freed the slaves

The success that stopped segregation

Yet we still forget

Yet we still walk on those dreams

Those dreams that are now lost

It's time to stand up

Stand up for those who thought they couldn't

Stand up for those who stood up for you

Stand up because we are powerful

We are that new generation everyone talks about

We are the new generation African American Scholars

We are the new generation African American million and billionaires

Never say you can't

Say you can

You can because they could

It's time to build no more destruction

And yet again you ask me how i know

Trust me it's the success of my past