(I'm a beginner)
You say I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and it’s a fight ‘cause
you won’t realize that it's not just
your cause
Time and time again, you rap that I’m your African Queen,
But yet it seems that when I shout that I am Black and Woman
and Woman and Black,
you ask me to choose
the right shoes or else I might get Boo’s—from you—because today I fight for Women too
But Black Man you must realize that
you say I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and it’s a fight ‘cause
you won’t realize that it’s not just your cause
I admit that
I straddled the fence once upon a time
at a time
when the time
wasn’t right for my time
to be both Black and Gay
and Black and Gay and Gay and Black
and yet you said be for one and not the other
or be for the other and leave the one
because you can’t be one and mutter the other
because The Cause
is The Cause
that must go on without the other
But Black Community
it was only because you said I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and the fight continues ‘cause
you won’t realize that it’s also my cause
especially if I don’t choose the other
You say I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and it’s a fight ‘cause
you won’t realize that it's not just
your cause
Time and time again, you rap that I’m your African Queen,
But yet it seems that when I shout that I am Black and Woman
and Woman and Black,
you ask me to choose
the right shoes or else I might get Boo’s—from you—because today I fight for Women too
But Black Man you must realize that
you say I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and it’s a fight ‘cause
you won’t realize that it’s not just your cause
I admit that
I straddled the fence once upon a time
at a time
when the time
wasn’t right for my time
to be both Black and Gay
and Black and Gay and Gay and Black
and yet you said be for one and not the other
or be for the other and leave the one
because you can’t be one and mutter the other
because The Cause
is The Cause
that must go on without the other
But Black Community
it was only because you said I can fight your cause
not realizing it’s our cause
and the fight continues ‘cause
you won’t realize that it’s also my cause
especially if I don’t choose the other