When I Think About Myself

Maya Angelou * Track #9 On Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie

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Maya Angelou

1971

When I Think About Myself by Maya Angelou

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For most house slaves one of the duties included looking after, or raising the slave masters children. This meant house slaves were to take orders from children just as if they were taking orders from an adult. The line refers to the humiliation and disrespect the speaker feels when a child speaks t...

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When I think about myself,
I almost laugh myself to death,
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke
When I think about myself.

Sixty years in these folks' world
The child I works for calls me girl
I say "Yes ma'am" for working's sake.
Too proud to bend
Too poor to break,
I laugh until my stomach ache,
When I think about myself.

My folks can make me split my side,
I laughed so hard I nearly died,
The tales they tell, sound just like lying,
They grow the fruit,
But eat the rind,
I laugh until I start to crying,
When I think about my folks.

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