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title: "Still I Rise"
description: "You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut s..."
author: "azizabosfor"
published: "2013-05-23T06:56:18+00:00"
modified: "2013-05-23T07:07:46+00:00"
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# Still I Rise

> You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut s...

***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***

***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PkBOPPbzo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PkBOPPbzo) ***

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Source: [https://yvision.kz/post/still-i-rise-313431](https://yvision.kz/post/still-i-rise-313431)