Citations:I got mine

English citations of I got mine

Phrase: "(often used attributively) used to convey that one has achieved success and that others should be able to as well regardless of ability, background, or circumstances"

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• 2008, Bambi Higgins, "The Black Situation Comedy", in African Americans and Popular Culture (ed. Todd Boyd), page 227:

  Strutting with pride over his nouveau-riche status, George [Jefferson of The Jeffersons] embodied and employed the trickle-down economic values of Reagan-era America, as well as an "I got mine," up-by-your-bootstraps ideology that was simultaneously mocked and celebrated in this version of a social sitcom.

• 2010, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2010, page 341:

  BMWs have excellent road manners, depreciate slowly, and have an “I got mine!” cachet that buyers find hard to resist.

• 2014, E. Matthew Buckley, From Sea Level to C Level, page 226:

  I gave a generally favorable review, though I felt compelled to say that some of the folks had an “I got mine” attitude.

• 2014, Roger Lee Ray, Progressive Faith and Practice: Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By, unnumbered page:

  Rand liked to call her view “objectivism” though some liken it to libertarianism. It reminds me more of an “I got mine” philosophy than of anything else. Most of us live in a world somewhere between the extremes of absolute selfishness and absolute self-abnegation.

• 2017, J. Leon Pridgen II & A. John Vinci, Unit 416, unnumbered page:

  It wasn't just stuffed into their pockets with an “I got mine” attitude. Somehow the money didn't matter so much. There was an understanding that they'd fought like hell to get to this point and they were better men for it.

• 2018, Racquel J. Gates, Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture, unnumbered page:

  Bambi Haggins argues that Murphy's “apolitical” invocation of black culture and identity in his comedy is indicative of an “I got mine” philosophy that was part of an overall 1980s emphasis on individuality.

• 2021, Extra MoJo!: The Best of MoJo Issues 1-10 (ed. Mignon Ariel King), page 51:

  Middle-class Blacks who disagree, clinging to an “I got mine!” mentality, should stop acting so ghetto.

• 2022, Jason C. Bivins, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion, page 86:

  Authenticity cannot be meaningfully achieved if it simply misinterprets — as the Embattled do— the interiority of the modernist conception of selfhood as a license for unencumbered emotional maximalism, an I-got-mine reality show triumphalism that refuses ways of life other than one's own.