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nancy dupree - my people is lyrics

[spoken word]
i want to tell you how i feel about my people
i’ve been living for several years now, and i’m not going to tell you how old i am, but i have voted a few times
and that lets you know that i’ve been watching my people for, ooh, a little while (alright)
and, uh, as i watch my people, and as i listen to them, and as i see what they do and how they do it, uh, i have come to understand, uh, things that i didn’t understand before (tell us about it)
and, uh, you want me to tell you about it? (yeah)
all right. all right
the poem is called “my people is”
and i want to warn everybody—
you know, they talk about proper grammar
and i have all due respect for proper grammar
i can proper the grammar anytime, anywhere, anyplace (haha! alright)
however, i do not feel that this is the time or the place
i’m going to speak the language the way my people speaks it
yes, i is. all right
my people, y’all, is ignorant, selfish, and cruel
now just in case you think i don’t mean what i say
i’m gonna repeat myself:
i said, my people is ignorant, selfish, and cruel
got you going there
and some of y’all is grinning inside, saying
“that’s right. that is right.”
somebody else is wondering
“where this fool coming from?”
and then there’s them that’s just saying (haha!)
well, before somebody decides to join church
and blow my brains out
let me hit you the way i’m coming from
first of all
my people has got to be ignorant
‘cause after 400 years in america
they still too dumb to know
that they ain’t supposed to survive (alright)
that’s right
america do not intend for my people to have nothing
america do not intend for my people to do nothing
and america sure enough do not intend for my people to be nothing (alright)
but you never know it from looking at them (haha!)
they be laughing loud, singing loud (haha!)
wearing all them pretty loud colors, strutting
and i mean it when i say “my people is selfish”
other people be asking
“how y’all do that? if we had to live like y’all got to live, we’d flush ourselves down the toilet. so how y’all do that?”
and my people say
“nothin’ to it but to do it.” (haha!) (alright)
and cruel?
my people take the kick for being cruel, y’all
they get chopped down over there
so they pop up over here
they struggle through that jail thing, that war thing
they wrestle with hunger and disease
but do you know that some of them is bold enough
to live to be senior citizens? (tell it!)
and they just keep on keeping on
there’s supposed to be no keeping on
the way america slaps it to them
i think they do it just to be aggravating (that’s right)
my people got the nerve—the nerve
to be magnificent (all right. all right. all right. all right.)
(all right!)

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