- Jun 8, 2004
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Have you guys ever heard the phrase, "you think you all that!", and "you think yo' ish don't stink", and so forth??? Well, I've heard that stuff before, and humble cat that I am, I denied it, and became apologetic about it, and you know the rest... Maybe, about 30 years of age, I decided that I would stop apologizing for being "all that", and "you think you so cute", and say "yeah, I do, and what's wrong with that?!"
Uh, huh, what's wrong with thinkin' you're all that and a 10-pound bag a patata chips(that's a lotta chips!)??? Why folks gotta rain on folks parade, humble and humiliate them, because their outlook on life is cheerful and positive, and confident??? What's da **** deal with folks tryna take the air out from beneath another's cloud??? Is it because some of us are so filled with self-loathing, and a lack of confidence in ourselves that we cannot stand our image up against the human being who so fine they wanna jump back and kiss themselves???(smile!)
Personally, I want to see folks full of themselves, but in a sincere manner... So long as they're not FRONTIN' like they're all that, but truly feel that way about themselves, I'm fine with that... One of my eldest children gets annoyed at seeing her youngest sibling have this attitude of the world is her oyster, and the sky is the limit, and "I'm a bad woman!!!"(Laugh!) She doesn't dig her bravado, and her brashness, but I see a little ALI in her, and I just be sittin' doing the Bundini Brown thing with her(yeah, champ, rumble young girl rumble!!!)... I try to tell her elder sister that it's about substance, not style, but she can't see she can be just as arrogant and effusive as her baby sister... In fact, they're two of a kind, cut from the same darn cloth, and that's why they can't see eye to eye on nothing, and she can't see herself in her sister(smile!) She's one of a kind, and lil sis is stealing her thunder, or something...(smile!)
Confidence, poise, inner-belief, self-possession, self-determination, humbling oneself to GOD, not other human beings... What is wrong with that??? Why must we prostrate ourselves before our fellow human beings before they are satisfied... Everybody is SOMEBODY, only a lot of somebodies out here have not been taught to BELIEVE in themselves that way... What are you guys opinions about this??? How do you FEEL about yourselves??? Are you guilty of tryna knock people off their clouds???
Peace!
Isaiah
Uh, huh, what's wrong with thinkin' you're all that and a 10-pound bag a patata chips(that's a lotta chips!)??? Why folks gotta rain on folks parade, humble and humiliate them, because their outlook on life is cheerful and positive, and confident??? What's da **** deal with folks tryna take the air out from beneath another's cloud??? Is it because some of us are so filled with self-loathing, and a lack of confidence in ourselves that we cannot stand our image up against the human being who so fine they wanna jump back and kiss themselves???(smile!)
Personally, I want to see folks full of themselves, but in a sincere manner... So long as they're not FRONTIN' like they're all that, but truly feel that way about themselves, I'm fine with that... One of my eldest children gets annoyed at seeing her youngest sibling have this attitude of the world is her oyster, and the sky is the limit, and "I'm a bad woman!!!"(Laugh!) She doesn't dig her bravado, and her brashness, but I see a little ALI in her, and I just be sittin' doing the Bundini Brown thing with her(yeah, champ, rumble young girl rumble!!!)... I try to tell her elder sister that it's about substance, not style, but she can't see she can be just as arrogant and effusive as her baby sister... In fact, they're two of a kind, cut from the same darn cloth, and that's why they can't see eye to eye on nothing, and she can't see herself in her sister(smile!) She's one of a kind, and lil sis is stealing her thunder, or something...(smile!)
Confidence, poise, inner-belief, self-possession, self-determination, humbling oneself to GOD, not other human beings... What is wrong with that??? Why must we prostrate ourselves before our fellow human beings before they are satisfied... Everybody is SOMEBODY, only a lot of somebodies out here have not been taught to BELIEVE in themselves that way... What are you guys opinions about this??? How do you FEEL about yourselves??? Are you guilty of tryna knock people off their clouds???
Peace!
Isaiah