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Related: About this forum"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, Ill rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of historys shame
I rise
Up from a past thats rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou
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"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Dec 2012
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,625 posts)1. GREAT poem! I love Maya Angelou. n/t
ismnotwasm
(41,984 posts)2. This is one of my favorites of all time
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)3. So do I! It was wonderful to read this one again. nt
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)4. It's been too long since I've heard this one. Thank you.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)5. love the woman. i bought a book of hers a couple years ago.
forgetting what it was about, but remember i loved it.
thanks.