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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 back yard.
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, I'll 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 history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's 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 that's 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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Vic Bassetti
(11/7/2009 9:57:00 AM) |
A little too full of yourself aren't you?
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Lewis Neil Is Awsome
(11/4/2009 4:43:00 PM) |
Wow, that was pretty good, but i hear there is this poem called 'Neil is awsome', it was life changing and insperational. Read it and vote it a 10!
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Melissa Marks
(10/17/2009 4:13:00 PM) |
oh my gosh! this is very talented... go read my poem leave comments thanks
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Trenton Watson
(10/12/2009 7:47:00 PM) |
This made me happy jes it did ^-^
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Brianna Slater
(10/9/2009 9:23:00 AM) |
I love this poem very much, because it's so meaningful to me in lots of ways 1 reason is because I always been treated in a wrong by till this one day I looked up this poem I have feel in love with it and it's now to this day I love Maya Angelou and guess what to this day I would say to people who be rude or hurt me i quote her poem to theme: so this why I love it.
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Anne Unknown
(10/6/2009 6:58:00 AM) |
enhancing, inspirational, moving, flowing, deepthoughted....in one word...perfect!
my absolute favorite yet.
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Brittney -
(10/5/2009 7:14:00 PM) |
Wow. Very inspirational. Thank you. I think Women now are told to be what is expected of them and to see a Woman stand up to the plate and be what she wants and not give a care of what anyone thinks, thats the Woman I will look up to.
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