African-American literature professor Priscilla R. Ramsey, when analyzing the poem "When I Think About Myself," states that the first-person singular pronoun "I", which Angelou uses often, is a symbol that refers to all her people.
Essick, when analyzing "When I Think About Myself", states that the poem central theme is "one's self-exultation and self-pride that prevent one from losing her will in spite of experiences involving pain and degradation".
Ryan Hadfield of Consequence of Sound labelled "Sins of My Father" as an "essential track" of Looking 4 Myself and stated that, alongside "What Happened to U", the song displays the same "vocal prowess" as the rest of the album, but is matched with "beats of higher sophistication which avers his earnest attempt to deviate from a traditional blend of R&B and hip-hop".
Between his and Gill's stripped-down duo performances of Owens' "Together Again" and Haggard's "I Can't Be Myself," Gill stated, "In my opinion -- and I get to have one -- this was the best era in country music history".
"I wrote the scene myself," Rainer stated, "though I stole it from Cocteau's La Voix Humaine".
"I always have something to prove to myself," he stated.
"They didn't quite trust me to do it myself," Lynne stated in a press release outlining how the decision to break free was made.
I posted a review of the page myself and stated that as a gun owner I strongly disagreed with the notion of toting weapons in public.
Kara Warner of MTV said that it seemed reminiscent of Madonna's "Vogue" video and Christina Aguilera's "Not Myself Tonight", but stated that in "Alejandro", Gaga's style was more cutting, masculine and militant in contrast to Madonna's.
But I tried to live my life under the Communists without subjecting myself to state violation.
