Remember how beautiful we looked in our "NATURAL" state


Before the wigs and weaves and things that are FAKE?


Before the blond hair dye and strawberry colors


Back when sisters were "Sistah's and brothers were "Brothaz"


Before the facials and botox, and skin-lighteners and clorox


'cause if the ancestors saw us today they'd be so shocked


Before relaxers and straighteners, and so-called perms


Before Vaseline on ya scalp and curlin' iron burns


Back when we saw our beauty through African eyes


Before the colored contacts became a disguise


Before the silicone, and nose-jobs, and face-lifts


Back when we loved our image and happily faced it


Back when the melanin in our skin radiated brightly


Now it's Maybelline in the day, and Noxzema on nightly


'Cause for centuries we were made to feel like less


Seeing our features as an albatross around our necks


They took their standards of beauty and placed them above me


So when I looked in the mirror, all I saw was ugly


And all the while we walked around hating our features


Subscribin' to the lies of European teachers


But now look at them with the pink, pale skin


Gettin' Brazilian butt-lifts and lips with collagen


And damn near all of them wanna have darker skin


Tryin' to look more like their Afro-kin


Layin' in tanning beds and spendin' long days on the beach


Tryin' to look like somethin' that's outta their reach


But it just proves that their standards of beauty were wrong


And that Black was beautiful all along!

I Love It!!!!!